Lamentations 5:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 2 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ We have had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Common English Bible

⁴ We drink our own water—but for a price; we gather our own wood—but pay for it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

Lamentations 5:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:36

Pheshur, Amarias, Melchias,

Isaiah 3:1

The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Isaiah 55:1

For as the heavens are exalted above the earth, so are my ways exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.

Deuteronomy 28:48

3 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.