Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
- BSB Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
- NKJV Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
- NASB Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
- NLT Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
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Quick answer
Their inheritance and homes have been handed over to foreigners.
Overview
The land God gave as Israel's inheritance is now possessed by strangers and aliens. Losing the promised inheritance was among the heaviest covenant curses. This loss of an earthly inheritance through sin highlights the security of the imperishable inheritance kept in heaven for those in Christ (1 Pet. 1:4; Deut. 28:30-33).
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Cross-references · 9
- Isa 1:7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Zeph 1:13Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine thereof.
- Deut 28:30–68Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
- Ps 79:1–2O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
- Ezek 7:24Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
- Ezek 7:21And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.
- Isa 63:18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
- Jer 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
- Isa 5:17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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