Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
In Context
1Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
3Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
Cross References
Psalms 79:1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, nations have come into Thy inheritance, They have defiled Thy holy temple, They made Jerusalem become heaps,
Isaiah 5:17And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
Jeremiah 6:12And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:21And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.
Zephaniah 1:13And their wealth hath been for a spoil, And their houses for desolation, And they have built houses, and do not inhabit, And they have planted vineyards, And they do not 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 →