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Lamentations 5:4
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
Lamentations 5:4 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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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 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
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