Lamentations 5:2
The land we used to own has been handed over to strangers, our houses have been given to foreigners.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Lord, please remember what's happened to us. Look at us and see how we've been humiliated!
3We have lost our fathers, and our mothers are widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1God, heathen nations have invaded your land. They have defiled your holy Temple. They have turned Jerusalem into heaps of rubble.
Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pasture; fattened livestock and goats will feed among the ruins of the rich.
Jeremiah 6:12Their houses will be given to others, their fields and wives too, because I'm going to punish everyone living in this country, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21I'm going to hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked people of the earth, who will make them unclean.
Zephaniah 1:13Their possessions will be looted; their houses will be demolished. They will build houses, but not live in them; they will plant vineyards, but not drink the wine.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →