Revised Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:2
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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
1Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְזָרִ֔ים בָּתֵּ֖ינוּ לְנָכְרִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:2
- Deuteronomy 28:30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
- Psalms 79:1O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- Isaiah 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
- Isaiah 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
- 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, saith Yhwh.
- 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.
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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