Lamentations 5:2 (WEB)

Passage

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4 We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "Remember Yahweh what has come on us..." into verse 3's "We are orphans and fatherless Our mothers...", so "inheritance" and "been" 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 "been" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.