Lamentations 5:2
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”Lamentations 5:2
What Does Lamentations 5:2 Mean?
Lamentations 5:2 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 2 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 13 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (13)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:2 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Isaiah 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.”Jeremiah 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 anger, which shall burn for ever.”Ecclesiastes 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 vanity, and it is an evil disease.”Zephaniah 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.”Deuteronomy 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.”Psalms 79:1“O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.”Deuteronomy 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, until he have destroyed thee.”Isaiah 5:17“Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.”Isaiah 63:18“The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.”Jeremiah 6:12“And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.”Jeremiah 9:19“For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.”Ezekiel 7:21“And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.”Ezekiel 7:24“Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.”
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