Lamentations 5:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ We had to pay for our drinking water, And our wood comes at a price.

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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

“See, we are servants today! And the land that You gave to our fathers, to eat its fruit and the good of it, see, we are servants in it!

Isaiah 3:1

For look, the Master, יהוה of hosts, is turning aside from Yerushalayim and from Yehuḏah the stock and the store, all the supply of bread and all the supply of water;

Isaiah 55:1

“Oh everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. And you who have no silver, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without silver and without price.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.