Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
General references
Bible References
General references
Deuteronomy 28:30
Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lay with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
Psalm 79:1
O God, the nations have come into thine inheritance. They have defiled thy holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
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.
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and wanderers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones.
Isaiah 63:18
Thy holy people possessed [it] but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says LORD.
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 profane it.
Zephaniah 1:13
And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation. Yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine of it.