Lamentations 5 · Verse 2

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:2, King James Version

Lamentations 5:2 in other translations

BSBOur inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
WEBOur inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
ASVOur inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
YLTOur inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
DARBYOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
BBEOur heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
WebsterOur inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

What does Lamentations 5:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
2. Our inheritance--"Thine inheritance" (Psa 79:1). The land given of old to us by Thy gift.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16

The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…

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Lamentations 5:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נַחֲלָתֵ֙נוּ֙na.cha.la.Te.nuinheritance ourH5159
נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣הne.hef.Khahit has been turned overH2015
לְזָרִ֔יםle.za.Rimto strangersH2114
בָּתֵּ֖ינוּba.Tei.nuhouses ourH1004
לְנָכְרִֽים\׃le.na.khe.Rimto foreignersH5237

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 5:2

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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. Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand. The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway: …

  • Psalms 79:1-2

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

  • Isaiah 63:18

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Isaiah 5:17

    Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 28:30-68; Ps 79:1,2; Isa 1:7; 5:17; 63:18; Jer 6:12; Eze 7:21,24
Zep 1:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Lamentations 5:1

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

  • Lamentations 5:2

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

  • Lamentations 5:3

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

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Lamentations 5:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Nuestra heredad se ha vuelto á extraños, nuestras casas á forasteros.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Notre héritage est dévolu à des étrangers, nos maisons, à des forains.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Unser Erbteil ist Fremden zugefallen, unsere Häuser Ausländern.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.