Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners.
Parallel translations
- WEB Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
- KJV Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- BSB Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, 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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- Isa 1:7Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
- Zeph 1:13Their wealth will become a plunder, and their houses a desolation. Yes, they will build houses, but won’t inhabit them. They will plant vineyards, but won’t drink their wine.
- Deut 28:30–68You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
- Ps 79:1–2A Psalm by Asaph. God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
- Ezek 7:24Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
- Ezek 7:21I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a plunder; and they will profane it.
- Isa 63:18Your holy people possessed it but a little while. Our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
- Jer 6:12Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.”
- Isa 5:17Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
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