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Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
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BBE Lamentations 5:2

Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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DARBY Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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KJV Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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WBT Lamentations 5:2

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WEB Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
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YLT Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham (Genesis 13:25; 17:8), and was consequently inherited by Abraham's posterity. Our houses. Not as it the Chaldeans had actually taken up their abode in some of the houses of Jerusalem. The expressions are forcible, but inexact. The land was seized; the houses were destroyed (Jeremiah 52:13).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Turned.--Used here as in the sense of transferred.Houses.--In Jer. Iii. 13, the Chaldaeans are said to have burnt the houses of Jerusalem, and those of the great men elsewhere; here, therefore, the "houses" spoken of are those of the farmers and peasants in the country.