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Lamentations 5:4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Lamentations 5:4 · Berean Standard Bible
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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 pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
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In context
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
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