Let the extortioner catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Lamentations 5:2 - King James 2000 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 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. |
Let the extortioner catch all that he has; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
Then shall the lambs feed in their pasture, and the waste places of the rich ones shall strangers eat.
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
And you, even yourself, shall let go of your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not: for you have kindled a fire in my anger, which shall burn forever.
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: the stalk has no bud: it shall yield no meal: if so be it does yield, the aliens shall swallow it up.
Israel is swallowed up: now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel in which is no pleasure.
Therefore their goods shall become booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.