Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 5:2

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

Turned. —Used here in the sense of transferred.

Houses. —In Jeremiah 3:13, the Chaldeans are said to have burnt the houses of Jerusalem, and those of the great men elsewhere; here, therefore, the “houses” spoken of are those of the farmers and peasants in the country.