inheritance: i.e. Canaan.
Turned - “ transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24 . Aliens - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their...
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 a...
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 himsel...
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...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Our inheritance - which is at the same time "thine inheritance" ( Psalms 79:1 )...
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 tha...
Our inheritance ] Canaan ( Leviticus 20:24 ).
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, a...
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...
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...
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 orpha...
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 the...
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Ver. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers. ] So the Jews called all other natio...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
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 fore...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abrah...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
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 can...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land.
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 ;...
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.