Lamentations 5:2

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

Context

v.1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.

v.2This passage

v.3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ezekiel 7:24

    Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.

  • Jeremiah 6:12

    And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.

  • Zephaniah 1:13

    And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

  • Deuteronomy 28:30

    Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • Psalms 79:1

    O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

  • Isaiah 63:18

    Thy holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.