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Lamentations 5:2
2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Lamentations 5:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- New International Version (NIV)Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
Context of Lamentations 5:2
1O Lord, remember what has come upon us; Look, and see our reproach (national disgrace)! Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. 3We have become orphans without a father; Our mothers are like widows. 4We have to pay for our drinking water; Our wood comes to us at a price.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:2 word by word
נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְזָרִ֔ים בָּתֵּ֖ינוּ לְנָכְרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:2
- Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her [before you]; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
- Psalms 79:1O God, the nations have invaded [the land of Your people] Your inheritance; They have defiled Your sacred temple; They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
- Isaiah 1:7Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience], Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence; It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 5:17Then the lambs will graze [among the ruins] as in their own pasture, And strangers will eat in the desolate places of the [exiled] wealthy.
- Isaiah 63:18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while; Our adversaries have trampled it down.
- Jeremiah 6:12Their houses shall be turned over to others, Their fields and their wives together; For I will stretch out My hand Against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 7:21I will give it into the hands of strangers (Babylonians) as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they shall profane it.
- Zephaniah 1:13Furthermore, their wealth will become plunder And their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses but not live in them, And plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers - The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under Gedaliah were not free, for they were vassals to the Chaldeans.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Turned - “transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24. Aliens - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 22. Our inheritance--"Thine inheritance" (Psa 79:1). The land given of old to us by Thy gift.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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