Lamentations 5:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.”
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BSBPD
“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:2 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- Psalms 79:1The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you— a desolation demolished by strangers.
- Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
- Isaiah 63:18For a short while Your people possessed Your holy place, but our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
- Jeremiah 6:12Their 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,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 17:4And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
- Ezekiel 7:21And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them.
- Ezekiel 7:24So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
- Zephaniah 1:13Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
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