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Monday, July 21st, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Easy-to-Read Version

Lamentations 5:2

Our land has been turned over to strangers. Our houses have been given to foreigners.

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.
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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
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, Lord , what happened to us. Look and see our shame. 2 Our land has been turned over to strangers. Our houses have been given to foreigners. 3 We have become orphans. We have no father. Our mothers have become like widows. 4 We have to buy the water that we drink. We have to pay for the wood that we use. 5 We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks. We get tired, and we have no rest. 6 We made an agreement with Egypt. We also made an agreement with Assyria to get enough bread. 7 Our ancestors sinned against you, and now they are dead. And we are suffering because of their sins. 8 Slaves have become our rulers. No one can save us from them. 9 We risk our lives to get food. There are men in the desert with swords. 10 Our skin is hot like an oven. We have a high fever because of our hunger.

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
So God created humans in his own image. He created them to be like himself. He created them male and female.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work the soil and take care of the garden.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, "Finally! One like me, with bones from my bones and a body from my body. She was taken out of a man, so I will call her ‘woman.'"
Malachi 2:15
God wants husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit. Why? So that they would have holy children and protect that spiritual unity. Don't cheat on your wife. She has been your wife from the time you were young.
Matthew 19:4
Jesus answered, "Surely you have read this in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.'
Mark 10:6
But when God made the world, ‘he made people male and female.'
Acts 17:26
God began by making one man, and from him he made all the different people who live everywhere in the world. He decided exactly when and where they would live.

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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