Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:
3Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1O God, nations, Have entered thine inheritance, Have profaned thy holy temple,—Have laid Jerusalem in heaps:
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the young rams feed where they please,—And, the wastes of the wealthy, shall strangers consume.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together,—For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, Declareth Yahweh.
Ezekiel 7:21Yea I will deliver it Into the hand of foreigners for a prey, And to the lawless ones of the earth for a spoil, And they will profane it;
Zephaniah 1:13Therefore shall their goods become a booty, and their houses, a desolation,—and they shall build houses, but not inhabit them, and 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 →