Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labour.
Lamentations 5:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. American Standard Version (1901) Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. Common English Bible Our property has been turned over to strangers; our houses belong to foreigners. Catholic Public Domain Version Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. |
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labour.
Your 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.
Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.
Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever.
And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
And 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 profane it.
Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he hath no standing corn; the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.
And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.