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Lamentations 5:4
We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:4 · Webster 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 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 strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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