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Selected Verse: Lamentations 5:2 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 5:2 |
King James |
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Our inheritance--"Thine inheritance" (Psa 79:1). The land given of old to us by Thy gift. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Turned - "transferred." The inheritance was the land of Canaan Lev 20:24.
Aliens - Or, "foreigners:" i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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. |
1 A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.