Lamentations 5:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto 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

Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; And let strangers make spoil of his labour.

Isaiah 1:7

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.

Isaiah 5:17

Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones shall wanderers eat.

Isaiah 63:18

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

Jeremiah 17:4

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.

Jeremiah 6:12

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.

Ezekiel 7:21

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.

Ezekiel 7:24

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.

Hosea 8:7

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.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein is no pleasure.

Zephaniah 1:13

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.