“ Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. ”
Turned - “ transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24 . Aliens - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their conquest of the country.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
inheritance: i.e. Canaan.
A catalogue of many calamities is now given by the Prophet, and as I have reminded you, for this end, that he may obtain God’s favor for himself and for the whole people. It was by no means a r...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Our inheritance is turned to strangers - The greater part of the Jews were either slain or carried away captive; and even those who were...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Our inheritance - which is at the same time "thine inheritance" ( Psalms 79:1 ). The land given of old to us by thy gift.
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Turned. — Used here as in the sense of transferred. Houses. — In Jer. Iii. 13, the Chaldæans are said to have burnt the houses of Jerusalem, and those of the great men elsewhere; here, therefo...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We h...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers ,.... The land of Canaan in general, which was given to Abraham and his seed to be their inheritance; and their field, and vineyards in particular, which came...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Ver. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers. ] So the Jews called all other nations, as the Greeks, barbarians. From hence to Lam 5...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. We are orph...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
What our fathers inherited as given them by thee, and we as left to us by them, is come into the hands of the Chaldeans.
Our inheritance is handed over to strangers, Our houses to aliens. They had had to stand by and watch while their land had been handed over to foreigners, and aliens had taken possession of their h...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possessi...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Deuteronomy 28:30-68 ; Ezekiel 7:21 ; Ezekiel 7:24 ; Isaiah 1:7 ; Isaiah 5:17 ; Isaiah 63:18 ; Jeremiah 6:12 ; Psalms 79:1 ; Psalms 79:2 ; Zephaniah 1:13