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Lamentations 5:2

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
KJV
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
WEB
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
ASV
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
DARBY
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
BLB
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our houses to foreigners.
ÅB
Vår arv er gått over til fremmede, våre hus til utlendinger.
OTB
Vår arv er gitt til fremmede, våre hjem til utlendinger.
B1930
Vår arv er gått over til fremmede, våre hus til utlendinger.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 1:7

    Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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  • Zephaniah 1:13

    Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:30–68

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

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  • Psalms 79:1–2

    O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.

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  • Isaiah 63:18

    The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

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  • Ezekiel 7:21

    And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

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  • Ezekiel 7:24

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

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  • Jeremiah 6:12

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

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