Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Bible References

General references

Deuteronomy 28:30
You shall betroth a wife, but another man will violate her; you shall build a house, but you will not live in it; you shall plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.
Psalm 79:1
A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.
Isaiah 1:7
Your land is desolate,
Your cities are burned with fire,
Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your presence;
It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers.
Isaiah 5:17
Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture,
And strangers will eat in the waste places of the wealthy.
Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.
Jeremiah 6:12
“Their houses shall be turned over to others,
Their fields and their wives together;
For I will stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 7:21
I will give it into the hands of the foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane it.
Zephaniah 1:13
“Moreover, their wealth will become plunder
And their houses desolate;
Yes, they will build houses but not inhabit them,
And plant vineyards but not drink their wine.”