Revised Webster's Bible
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 LORD, 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 drank our water for money; our wood is sold to 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 in it: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes of it.
- Psalms 79:1O God, the heathen have come into thy 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, foreigners devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
- 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 to others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
- 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 of 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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