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Lamentations 5:2
2Strangers have taken the land that our ancestors gave to us. Foreign people live in our homes.
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
1Lord, please remember the trouble that has happened to us. Look at us, because we are ashamed. Strangers have taken the land that our ancestors gave to us. Foreign people live in our homes. 3We are children whose fathers have died. Our mothers no longer have husbands. 4We must pay money for the water that we drink. We must buy wood for our fires.
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 28:30A woman will promise to marry you. But another man will take her and have sex with her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a garden, but you will never eat the fruit that grows in it.
- Psalms 79:1God, foreign nations have attacked your own land. They have spoiled your holy temple. They have destroyed the buildings in Jerusalem.
- Isaiah 1:7Your land has become useless. Fire has destroyed your towns and cities. Foreign people have taken the crops from your fields, while you stood there and watched. Strangers have destroyed everything in your country.
- Isaiah 5:17Then lambs will find good grass to eat, as they do in their own fields. Fat sheep will find food to eat among the stones of the old houses.
- Isaiah 63:18For only a short time, the holy place belonged to us, your special people. Then our enemies knocked down your temple.
- Jeremiah 6:12I will give their houses to other people to live in. Other people will take their fields and their wives. Yes, I will punish the people who live in this land.’ That is what the Lord says.
- Ezekiel 7:21I will allow foreigners and wicked people to take those things from them. They will use those valuable things in a disgusting way.
- Zephaniah 1:13So I will take away from them everything that they have. I will take away their houses too. They will build houses, but they will never live in them. They will plant plants to get grapes. But they will never have wine from them.’
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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