Lamentations 5:4
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
- KJV
- We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
- WEB
- We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
- ASV
- We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
- DARBY
- Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
- BLB
- Our water for silver we drink, [and] our wood comes in with a price.
- ÅB
- Vi må kjøpe det vann vi drikker, vår ved må vi betale.
- OTB
- Vi må betale for vannet vi drikker; vårt ved får vi til en pris.
- B1930
- Vi må kjøpe det vann vi drikker, vår ved må vi betale.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 3:1
For, 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,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:48
Therefore 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.
Read in contextEzekiel 4:9–17
Take 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.
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