Lamentations 5:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Common English Bible

² Our property has been turned over to strangers; our houses belong to foreigners.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.

Lamentations 5:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil!

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; in your very presence aliens devour your land; it is desolate, as overthrown by aliens.

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, fatlings and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Isaiah 63:18

Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

Jeremiah 17:4

You shall loosen your hand from your heritage which I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land which you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled which shall burn for ever.”

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses shall be turned over to others, their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:21

And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses; I will put an end to their proud might, and their holy places shall be profaned.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads, it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, aliens would devour it.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plant vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.”