Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price. New Living Translation We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive. English Standard Version We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. Berean Standard Bible We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. King James Bible We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. New King James Version We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price. New American Standard Bible We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price. NASB 1995 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price. NASB 1977 We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price. Legacy Standard Bible We drink our water by means of silver; Our wood comes to us at a price. Amplified Bible We have to pay for our drinking water; Our wood comes to us at a price. Christian Standard Bible We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. Holman Christian Standard Bible We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. American Standard Version We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us. Aramaic Bible in Plain English We are made to drink our water for money, and our wood is for a price Brenton Septuagint Translation We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck: Contemporary English Version The water we drink and the wood we burn cost far too much. Douay-Rheims Bible We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood. English Revised Version We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. GOD'S WORD® Translation We have to pay to drink our own water. We have to pay to chop our own wood. Good News Translation We must pay for the water we drink; we must buy the wood we need for fuel. International Standard Version We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. JPS Tanakh 1917 We have drunk our water for money; Our wood cometh to us for price. Literal Standard Version We have drunk our water for money, | Our wood comes for a price. Majority Standard Bible We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. New American Bible We pay money to drink our own water, our own wood comes at a price. NET Bible We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. New Revised Standard Version We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought. New Heart English Bible We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us. Webster's Bible Translation We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. World English Bible We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us. Young's Literal Translation Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Prayer for Restoration…3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. 5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.… Cross References Isaiah 3:1 For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water, Isaiah 55:1 "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! Ezekiel 4:16 Then He told me, "Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure. Treasury of Scripture We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us. have Deuteronomy 28:48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee. Isaiah 3:1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, Ezekiel 4:9-17 Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof… is sold. Jump to Previous Bought Buy Drank Drink Drinking Drunk Drunken Money Pay Price Sold Water WoodJump to Next Bought Buy Drank Drink Drinking Drunk Drunken Money Pay Price Sold Water WoodLamentations 5 1. A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.(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.Verse 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. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew We must buyבְּכֶ֣סֶף (bə·ḵe·sep̄) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3701: Silver, money the water מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙ (mê·mê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen we drink; שָׁתִ֔ינוּ (šā·ṯî·nū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural Strong's 8354: To imbibe our wood עֵצֵ֖ינוּ (‘ê·ṣê·nū) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood comes יָבֹֽאוּ׃ (yā·ḇō·’ū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go at a price. בִּמְחִ֥יר (bim·ḥîr) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4242: Price, payment, wages Links Lamentations 5:4 NIVLamentations 5:4 NLT Lamentations 5:4 ESV Lamentations 5:4 NASB Lamentations 5:4 KJV Lamentations 5:4 BibleApps.com Lamentations 5:4 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 5:4 Chinese Bible Lamentations 5:4 French Bible Lamentations 5:4 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 5:4 We have drunken our water for money (Lam. 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