Lamentations 5:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ We pay silver for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

Nehemiah 9:36

“But see, even today we are slaves! Slaves in the land that You gave to our ancestors to eat of its fruit and its bounty. We are slaves in it.

Isaiah 3:1

For behold! The Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot, takes from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, every supply of bread and every supply of water,

Isaiah 55:1

“Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the water, and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.