Lamentations 5:2 (GNV)

Passage

Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.

Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliants.

Lamentations 5:3 We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

Lamentations 5:4 Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "inheritance", "turned", "strangers", "houses", and "aliants". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "inheritance" and "turned", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Remember O Lord what is come vpon..." into verse 3's "We are fatherles euen without father and...", so "inheritance" and "turned" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "inheritance" and "turned" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.