Albert Barnes Commentary Lamentations 5:2

Albert Barnes Commentary

Lamentations 5:2

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Lamentations 5:2

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens." — Lamentations 5:2 (ASV)

Turned - “transferred.” The inheritance was the land of Canaan (Leviticus 20:24).

Aliens - Or, “foreigners”: that is, the Chaldeans upon their conquest of the country.