Lamentations 5:2

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

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Turned - “ transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan Leviticus 20:24 . Aliens - Or, “foreigners:” i. e. the Chaldaeans upon their...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

inheritance: i.e. Canaan.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. Our inheritance - which is at the same time "thine inheritance" ( Psalms 79:1 )...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Our inheritance ] Canaan ( Leviticus 20:24 ).
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abrah...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens, since the invading Chaldeans had taken possession of the entire land.

² Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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