KJV King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
WEB World English Bible
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
ASV American Standard Version
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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Cross-references
Isaiah 3:1For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,Ezekiel 4:9-17Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, [according] to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore 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.
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