Let a creditor seize all he has, and may strangers plunder his labor.
Lamentations 5:2 - Tree of Life Version Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our homes 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. |
Let a creditor seize all he has, and may strangers plunder his labor.
Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your fields, strangers devour it in your presence—a desolation, overthrown by strangers.
Then lambs will graze as if in their own pasture, and nomads will eat in the ruins of the wealthy.
Briefly Your holy people possessed it— our foes have trampled Your Sanctuary.
So you, on your own, let go of your heritage that I gave you. So I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know. For you have kindled a fire in My nose that will burn forever.”
Their homes will be turned over to others—together with their fields and their wives. For I will stretch out My hand on the inhabitants of the land.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
I will give it into the hands of the strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
I will bring the wicked of the nations. They will possess their houses. So I will end the pride of the strong, when their holy places are profaned.
“For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind. There is no mature grain— the sprout yields no meal. Should it produce anything, strangers would swallow it up.
Israel has been swallowed up! Now they are among the nations, like an ornament with no delight in it.
Their wealth will become plunder, their houses a ruin. They will build houses but not live in them. They will plant vineyards but not drink their wine.