Lamentations 5:4

New International Version

We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:1

See now, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, is about to take from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: all supplies of food and all supplies of water,

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Isaiah 55:1

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

Nehemiah 9:36

“But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.