Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers; 1 our houses to foreigners. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, Yahweh, what has happened to us; 1 look and see our disgrace. 1
3We have become orphans, the fatherless, 1 and our mothers are like widows. 1
Cross References
Psalms 79:1God, foreign nations have come into your inheritance; 1 they have defiled your holy temple; 1 they have turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins. 1
Isaiah 5:17Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners. + 5:17 Some modern versions have and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze . 1
Jeremiah 6:12Their houses will be turned over to others, both their fields and their wives together. 1 For I will attack the inhabitants of the land with my hand—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Ezekiel 7:21Then I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder, 1 and they will defile them. 1
Zephaniah 1:13Their wealth will become plunder, and their houses will be an abandoned devastation! 1 They will build houses but not live in them, and plant vineyards but not drink their wine. 1
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 →