Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold our reproach!
3We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1“A psalm of Asaph.” O God! the nations have come into thine inheritance; They have polluted thy holy temple; They have made Jerusalem a heap of ruins!
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed, as in their own pasture, And the deserted fields of the rich shall strangers consume.
Jeremiah 6:12Their houses also shall be transferred to others, Their fields and their wives together, For I will stretch out my hand over the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the earth for a spoil, And they shall pollute it.
Zephaniah 1:13Their substance shall become a spoil, And their houses a desolation; They shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; And shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
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 →