Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
Jeremiah 6:12Their houses will be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.”
Ezekiel 7:21I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
Zephaniah 1:13Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t 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 →