Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, || Our houses to foreigners.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, || Look attentively, and see our reproach.
3Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, nations have come into Your inheritance, || They have defiled Your holy temple, || They made Jerusalem become heaps,
Isaiah 5:17And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses have been turned to others, || Fields and wives together, || For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Ezekiel 7:21And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, || And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, || And they have defiled it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their wealth has been for a spoil, || And their houses for desolation, || And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, || And they have planted vineyards, || And they do 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 →