Lamentations 5:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Lamentations 5:4 Cross References

Nehemiah 9:36

Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

Isaiah 3:1

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

Isaiah 55:1

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.