Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
Lamentations 5:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our inheritance has fallen over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. American Standard Version (1901) Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens. Common English Bible Our property has been turned over to strangers; our houses belong to foreigners. Catholic Public Domain Version Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. |
Your land is desolate, your cities burned down; foreigners devour your fields right in front of you – a desolation, like a place demolished by foreigners.
Lambs will graze as if in their own pastures, and resident foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.
Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
You will, on your own, relinquish your inheritance that I gave you. I will make you serve your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have set my anger on fire; it will burn for ever.
Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land. This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will hand these things over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane them.
So I will bring the most evil of nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their sacred places will be profaned.
Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up! Now they are among the nations like discarded pottery.
Their wealth will become plunder and their houses a ruin. They will build houses but never live in them, plant vineyards but never drink their wine.