Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
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.

NET Bible

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נחלה 
Nachalah 
Usage: 222

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Request For Mercy

1 Keep in mind, O Jehovah, what has come to us. Take note and see our shame. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.
3 We are children without fathers. Our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Zephaniah 1:13

Their wealth will be looted. Their homes will be demolished. They will build houses. However they will not live in them! They will plant vineyards. But they will not drink their wine!

Isaiah 1:7

Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.

Deuteronomy 28:30-68

A man will be engaged to a woman, but before they can get married, enemy soldiers will rape her. Some of you will build houses, but never get to live in them. If you plant a vineyard, you will not be around long enough to enjoy the first harvest.

Psalm 79:1-2

([Psalm of Asaph]) O God, the nations have invaded the land that belongs to you. They have dishonored (defiled) your holy temple. They have left Jerusalem in ruins.

Isaiah 5:17

In the ruins of the cities lambs will eat grass and young goats will find pasture.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people possessed the land for a little while. Our enemies have trampled on your holy place.

Jeremiah 6:12

Their houses, their fields and their wives will be turned over to others. I will stretch out my hand (extend my power) against the inhabitants of the land, declares Jehovah.

Ezekiel 7:21

I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 7:24

I will bring the wicked of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the mighty, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

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