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the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Brenton's Septuagint

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Patriotism;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Fatherless;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alien;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tribes, Lost Ten;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our houses to foreigners.
Hebrew Names Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
English Standard Version
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
New American Standard Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
New Century Version
Our land has been turned over to strangers; our houses have been given to foreigners.
Amplified Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
World English Bible
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,Our houses to foreigners.
Berean Standard Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
Contemporary English Version
Foreigners and strangers have taken our land and our homes.
Complete Jewish Bible
The land we possessed has been passed on to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
Darby Translation
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Easy-to-Read Version
Our land has been turned over to strangers. Our houses have been given to foreigners.
George Lamsa Translation
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Good News Translation
Our property is in the hands of strangers; foreigners are living in our homes.
Lexham English Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.
Literal Translation
Our inheritance has been turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure enheritaunce is turned to the straungers, & oure houses to the aleauntes.
American Standard Version
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
Bible in Basic English
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
King James Version (1611)
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
English Revised Version
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.
Update Bible Version
Our inheritance has turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
New English Translation
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
New King James Version
Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
New Living Translation
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
New Life Bible
The land we received from You has been given over to strangers. Our homes have been given to people from other lands.
New Revised Standard
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
Revised Standard Version
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to aliens.
Young's Literal Translation
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

Contextual Overview

1 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach. 2 Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers: 3 we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck: 5 we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest. 6 Egypt gave the hand to us, Assur to their own satisfaction. 7 Our fathers sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities. 8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand. 9 We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10 Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:30-68, Psalms 79:1, Psalms 79:2, Isaiah 1:7, Isaiah 5:17, Isaiah 63:18, Jeremiah 6:12, Ezekiel 7:21, Ezekiel 7:24, Zephaniah 1:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:48 - in hunger Ecclesiastes 6:2 - but Jeremiah 9:19 - we are

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.
Genesis 2:15
And the Lord God took the man whom he had formed, and placed him in the garden of Delight, to cultivate and keep it.
Genesis 2:23
And Adam said, This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of her husband.
Malachi 2:15
And did he not do well? and there was the residue of his spirit. But ye said, What does God seek but a seed? But take ye heed to your spirit, and forsake not the wife of thy youth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our inheritance is turned to strangers,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came to them by inheritance from their fathers, were now in the hands of the Chaldeans, strangers to God, and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, as all Gentiles were, Ephesians 2:12;

our houses to aliens; which they had built or purchased, or their fathers had left them, were now inhabited by those of another country.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Turned - “transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24.

Aliens - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Lamentations 5:2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers — The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under Gedaliah were not free, for they were vassals to the Chaldeans.


 
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