Lamentations 5:2

New English Translation

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

Cross References

Psalm 109:11

May the creditor seize all he owns! May strangers loot his property!

Isaiah 1:7

Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.

Isaiah 5:17

Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

Jeremiah 17:4

You will lose your hold on the land which I gave to you as a permanent possession. I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For you have made my anger burn like a fire that will never be put out.”

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:21

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Hosea 8:8

Israel will be swallowed up among the nations; they will be like a worthless piece of pottery.

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.