Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
The rest of the Bible does not give a very graphic picture of the oppression of Israel during their captivity; but in these lines, the stark ugliness, injustice, greed and sadistic cruelty of it are plainly visible. The conquerors had taken over everything.  Note the expressions, `our water,' and `our wood.' Without limit these necessities had once belonged to Israel; now they could use such things only by buying them from their enemies.