Lamentations 5:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

Let his creditor take all his goods; and let others have the profit of his work.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

Isaiah 5:17

Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.

Isaiah 63:18

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

Jeremiah 17:4

And your hand will have to let go your heritage which I gave you; and I will make you a servant to your haters in a land which is strange to you: for you have put my wrath on fire with a flame which will go on burning for ever.

Jeremiah 6:12

And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:21

And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.

Ezekiel 7:24

For this reason I will send the worst of the nations and they will take their houses for themselves: I will make the pride of their strength come to an end; and their holy places will be made unclean.

Hosea 8:7

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

Hosea 8:8

Israel has come to destruction; now they are among the nations like a cup in which there is no pleasure.

Zephaniah 1:13

And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.