Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1O god, the heathen are come into yours inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Zephaniah 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they 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 →