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Lamentations 5:2
Our land has been turned over to strangers; our houses have been given to foreigners.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,our houses to foreigners.
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.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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.
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.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Amplified Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto aliens.
King James Version (1611)
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Our inheritance has turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
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.
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.
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Contextual Overview
1 Remember, Lord , what happened to us. Look and see our disgrace. 2 Our land has been turned over to strangers; our houses have been given to foreigners. 3 We are like orphans with no father; our mothers are like widows. 4 We have to buy the water we drink; we must pay for the firewood. 5 Those who chase after us want to catch us by the neck. We are tired and find no rest. 6 We made an agreement with Egypt and with Assyria to get enough food. 7 Our ancestors sinned against you, but they are gone; now we suffer because of their sins. 8 Slaves have become our rulers, and no one can save us from them. 9 We risk our lives to get our food; we face death in the desert. 10 Our skin is hot like an oven; we burn with starvation.
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 human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.
So God created human beings in his image. In the image of God he created them. He created them male and female.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.
The Lord God put the man in the garden of Eden to care for it and work it.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."
And the man said, "Now, this is someone whose bones came from my bones, whose body came from my body. I will call her ‘woman,' because she was taken out of man."
Malachi 2:15
God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.
God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.
Matthew 19:4
Jesus answered, "Surely you have read in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
Jesus answered, "Surely you have read in the Scriptures: When God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
Mark 10:6
But when God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
But when God made the world, ‘he made them male and female.'
Acts 17:26
God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must live.
God began by making one person, and from him came all the different people who live everywhere in the world. God decided exactly when and where they must 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.
