Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
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Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Lamentations 5:5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
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Deuteronomy 28:33
The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:
Ecclesiastes 6:2
A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28:48
For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
Isaiah 1:7
Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will get food as in their grass-lands, and the fat cattle will be feasting in the waste places.
Hosea 7:9
Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
Hosea 8:7
For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.
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Lamentations 5:19
You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
Lamentations 5:22
But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
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