Lamentations 5:4

The Scriptures 1998

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

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 Yehuḏ

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.