Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
General references
Bible References
General references
Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.
Psalm 79:1
[A Psalm of Asaph.] O God, the nations have come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
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 shall the lambs feed in their pasture, and the waste places of the rich ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 63:18
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
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, says the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:21
And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for plunder, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil; and they shall pollute it.
Zephaniah 1:13
Therefore their goods shall become booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink their wine.