Lamentations 5:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Our heritage is turned over to strangers, our homes, to foreigners.

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May the usurer snare all he owns, strangers plunder all he earns.

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is waste, your cities burnt with fire; Your land—before your eyes strangers devour it, a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs shall graze as at pasture, young goats shall eat in the ruins of the rich.

Isaiah 63:18

Why have the wicked invaded your holy place, why have our enemies trampled your sanctuary?

Jeremiah 17:4

You will relinquish your hold on your heritage which I have given you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know: For a fire has broken out from my anger, burning forever.

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will fall to others, their fields and their wives as well; For I will stretch forth my hand against those who dwell in the land—oracle of the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:21

I will hand them over as spoils to foreigners, as plunder to the wicked of the earth, so that they may defile them.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring in the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to their proud strength, and their sanctuaries will be defiled.

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like a useless vessel.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth shall be given to plunder and their houses to devastation; They will build houses, but not dwell in them; They will plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.