Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
3Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1“A psalm of Assaph.” O God! nations have entered into thy heritage; they have profaned thy holy temple; they have rendered Jerusalem heaps of ruins.
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the sheep feed according to their wont, and the ruins of the fat ones shall sojourners eat.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be transferred unto others, fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand over the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it up into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil: and they shall pollute it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their wealth shall become a booty, and their houses shall be made desolate; and they will build houses, but they shall not inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, but they shall not drink their 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 →