Lamentations 5:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

“Let the people he owes take everything he owns. Give it all to strangers.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country lies in ruins; your towns are in ashes. Foreigners and strangers take and destroy your land while you watch.

Isaiah 5:17

His people will be like sheep grazing in their own pasture, and they will take off what was left by others.

Isaiah 63:18

For a little while, your temple belonged to us; and now our enemies have torn it down.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will lose the land that I gave you, and I will make you slaves in a foreign country, because you have made my anger blaze up like a fire that won't stop burning.

Jeremiah 6:12

I'll punish the people of Judah and give to others their houses and fields, as well as their wives. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Ezekiel 7:21

Wicked foreigners will rob and disgrace you.

Ezekiel 7:24

so I will tell the most wicked nations to come and take over your homes. They will put an end to the pride you have in your strong army, and they will make your places of worship unfit to use.

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Hosea 8:8

Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their possessions will be taken, their homes left in ruins. They won't get to live in the houses they build, or drink wine from the grapes in their own vineyards.