Lamentations 5:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, And our houses to foreigners.

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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.

Lamentations 5:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:11

Let the creditor lay a snare for all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labour.

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers.

Isaiah 5:17

And the lambs shall feed in their pasture, and strangers shall eat in the waste places of the fat ones.

Isaiah 63:18

For a little while Your set-apart people possessed it – our adversaries have trodden down Your set-apart place.

Jeremiah 17:4

“And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.”

Jeremiah 6:12

“And their houses shall be turned over to others, fields and wives together. For I shall stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares יהוה.

Ezekiel 7:21

And I shall give it for a prey into the hands of strangers, and to the wrong of the earth for a spoil, and they shall profane it.

Ezekiel 7:24

And I shall bring the evil ones of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. And I shall cause the pride of the strong to cease, and their set-apart places shall be profaned.

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up.

Hosea 8:8

“Yisra’ĕl has been swallowed up. They have now become among the nations as a vessel in which is no pleasure.

Zephaniah 1:13

“And their wealth shall become plunder, and their houses laid waste. And they shall build houses but not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”