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Lamentations 5:4
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Lamentations 5:4 · Bible in Basic English
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Lamentations 5:4 in other translations
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
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In context
1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
2 Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
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