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Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
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BBE Lamentations 5:4

We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
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DARBY Lamentations 5:4

Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
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KJV Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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WBT Lamentations 5:4

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WEB Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
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YLT Lamentations 5:4

Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - We have drunken our water, etc. The Jews were not yet carried away to Babylonia when this was written, but had to pay a dear price to the new lords of the soil for the commonest necessaries of life.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Our water . . . our wood.--The point of the complaint lies in the possessive pronoun. The Chaldaean conquerors were in possession of the country, and the very necessaries of life, which had been looked on as the common property of all, were only to be had for money. In the Hebrew of the first clause the fact appears yet more emphatically: Our water comes to us for money. The words have been referred by some commentators to the sufferings of the exiles in Egypt, but the context fits in better with the idea of the hardships of those who were left in Judah.