Lamentations 5:2 Cross References

Lamentations 5:2

2: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

Zephaniah 1:13

  1. They are the very ones whose property will be plundered by the enemy, whose homes will be ransacked. They will never have a chance to live in the new homes they have built. They will never drink wine from the vineyards they have planted.

Isaiah 1:7

  1. Your country lies in ruins, and your cities are burned. As you watch, foreigners plunder your fields and destroy everything they see.

Jeremiah 6:12

  1. Their homes will be turned over to their enemies, and so will their fields and their wives. For I will punish the people of this land," says the LORD.

Isaiah 5:17

  1. In those days flocks will feed among the ruins; lambs and kids will pasture there.

Deuteronomy 28:30

  1. "You will be engaged to a woman, but another man will ravish her. You will build a house, but someone else will live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will never enjoy its fruit.
  2. Your ox will be butchered before your eyes, but you won't get a single bite of the meat. Your donkey will be driven away, never to be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will be there to help you.
  3. You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break as you long for them, but nothing you do will help.
  4. A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
  5. You will go mad because of all the tragedy around you.

Ezekiel 7:21

  1. I will give it as plunder to foreigners from the most wicked of nations, and they will defile it.

Isaiah 63:18

  1. How briefly your holy people possessed the holy place, and now our enemies have destroyed it.

Psalms 79:1

  1. O God, pagan nations have conquered your land, your special possession. They have defiled your holy Temple and made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.
  2. They have left the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of heaven. The flesh of your godly ones has become food for the wild animals.

Ezekiel 7:24

  1. I will bring the most ruthless of nations to occupy their homes. I will break down their proud fortresses and defile their sanctuaries.
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