Lamentations 5:2

Good News Translation

Our property is in the hands of strangers; foreigners are living in our homes.

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May his creditors take away all his property, and may strangers get everything he worked for.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country has been devastated, and your cities have been burned to the ground. While you look on, foreigners take over your land and bring everything to ruin.

Isaiah 5:17

In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.

Isaiah 63:18

We, your holy people, were driven out by our enemies for a little while; they trampled down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will have to give up the land I gave you, and I will make you serve your enemies in a land you know nothing about, because my anger is like a fire, and it will burn forever.”

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be given to others, and so will their fields and their wives. I am going to punish the people of this land.

Ezekiel 7:21

“I will let foreigners rob them,” says the Lord, “and lawbreakers will take all their wealth and defile it.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the most evil nations here and let them have your homes. Your strongest men will lose their confidence when I let the nations profane the places where you worship.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap a storm! A field of grain that doesn't ripen can never produce any bread. But even if it did, foreigners would eat it up.

Hosea 8:8

Israel has become like any other nation and is as useless as a broken pot.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will be looted and their houses destroyed. They will never live in the houses they are building or drink wine from the vineyards they are planting.”