Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
New American Standard Bible
Our
King James Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Holman Bible
our houses to foreigners.
International Standard Version
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners.
A Conservative Version
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
American Standard Version
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
Amplified
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to foreigners.
Bible in Basic English
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Darby Translation
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Julia Smith Translation
Our inheritance was turned to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
King James 2000
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners.
Modern King James verseion
Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, and our houses to the aliens.
New Heart English Bible
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
The Emphasized Bible
Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
Webster
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
World English Bible
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
Youngs Literal Translation
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
Interlinear
Haphak
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
1 O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
Cross References
Zephaniah 1:13
Their wealth will be stolen and their houses ruined! They will not live in the houses they have built, nor will they drink the wine from the vineyards they have planted.
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is devastated, your cities burned with fire. Right before your eyes your crops are being destroyed by foreign invaders. They leave behind devastation and destruction.
Deuteronomy 28:30-68
You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
Psalm 79:1-2
A psalm of Asaph. O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land; they have polluted your holy temple and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
Isaiah 5:17
Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
Isaiah 63:18
For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.
Jeremiah 6:12
Their houses will be turned over to others as will their fields and their wives. For I will unleash my power against those who live in this land," says the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21
I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world's wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.
Ezekiel 7:24
I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.