Lamentations 5:4
Modern Translations
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 Study Bible
We must buy the water we drink; 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.

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.

Contemporary English Version
The water we drink and the wood we burn cost far too much.

Good News Translation
We must pay for the water we drink; we must buy the wood we need for fuel.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We have to pay to drink our own water. We have to pay to chop our own wood.

International Standard Version
We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.

NET Bible
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
Classic Translations
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.

King James 2000 Bible
We have drunk our water at a price; our wood is sold unto us.

New Heart English Bible
We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.

World English Bible
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

American King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

American Standard Version
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

A Faithful Version
We have drunk our water for money; our wood comes for a price.

Darby Bible Translation
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

English Revised Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Webster's Bible Translation
We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
We are fayne to drynke oure owne water for moneye, and oure owne wod must we bye with moneye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
We have drunk our water for money, "" Our wood comes for a price.

Young's Literal Translation
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

Smith's Literal Translation
We drank our water for silver; our wood will come for a price.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
We are made to drink our water for money, and our wood is for a price

Lamsa Bible
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
We have drunk our water for money; Our wood cometh to us for price.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
















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