Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

General references

Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall become engaged to a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You shall build a house, and you shall not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard, and you shall not gather the grapes of it.
Psalm 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple; they have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is wasted, your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land right before your eyes, and it is wasted, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs feed in their way, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 63:18
The people of Your holiness have possessed it but a little while; our enemies have trampled Your sanctuary.
Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses shall be turned to others, together with their fields and wives; for I will stretch out My hand on the people of the land, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:21
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prize, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall defile it.
Zephaniah 1:13
And their goods shall become a prize and their houses a waste. They shall also build houses, but not live in them, and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.