Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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ASV
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came to them by inheritance from their fathers, were now in the hands of the Chaldeans, strangers to God, and aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, as all Gentiles were, Eph 2:12; our houses to aliens; which they had built or purchased, or their fathers had left them, were now inhabited by those of another country.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers - The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were left under Gedaliah were not free, for they were vassals to the Chaldeans.
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Zephaniah 1:13Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.
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Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the…
You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.
You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not…
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Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
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A people you do not know will eat the produce of your land and of all your toil. All your days you will be oppressed and crushed.
The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
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Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
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So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie…
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.