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Lamentations 5:2

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

KJV

Hæreditas nostra versa est ad alienos, domus nostræ ad extraneos.

Vulgate

κληρονομία ἡμῶν μετεστράφη ἀλλοτρίοις, οἱ οἶκοι ἡμῶν ξένοις.

LXX

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

ASV

נַחֲלָתֵ֨/נוּ֙ נֶֽהֶפְכָ֣ה לְ/זָרִ֔ים בָּתֵּ֖י/נוּ לְ/נָכְרִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

בֵּ֣ית
byt
noun · 2032×
הָפַ֣ךְ
hpk
verb · 94×
וֹ
v
noun · 221×
זָ֑ר
zr
verb · 76×
נָכְרִיָּֽה
nkryh
adjective · 46×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 28:30 — Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
  • Deut 28:30 — Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
  • Deut 28:48 — Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, u
  • Eccl 6:2 — A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jer 17:4 — And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine ange
  • Ps 79:1 — O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
  • Zeph 1:13 — Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.