Lamentations 5:2 “Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to forei…”

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

World English Bible

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

American Standard Version

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Geneva Bible 1599

Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

Darby Translation

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Young's Literal Translation

Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

Bible in Basic English

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

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Cross references

“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”

Isaiah 1:7 Zephaniah 1:13 Deuteronomy 28:30–68 Isaiah 5:17 Isaiah 63:18 Jeremiah 6:12

Isaiah 1:7 · BSB

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.

Zephaniah 1:13 · BSB

Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.

Deuteronomy 28:30–68 · BSB

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

Isaiah 5:17 · BSB

Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.

Isaiah 63:18 · BSB

For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 6:12 · BSB

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

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