Lamentations 5:4 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

YLT

Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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5 verses on the floor

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,
Judges 5:11
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.
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.
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.
Isaiah 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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), We have drunk our water for money, and the saying is no longer true, Usus communis aquarum -- Water is free to all. So hardly did their oppressors use them that they could not have a draught of fair water but they must purchase it either with money or with work.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Thus, "our" means the water which we need, the commonest necessary of life. our wood--In Judea each one could get wood without pay; in Babylon, "our wood," the wood we need, must be paid for.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LAM 5:4ISA 3:1 EZE 4:16-17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 5:4ISA 3:1 LEV 26:26
LAM 5:4DEU 28:48 JER 28:13-14
LAM 5:4ISA 3:1 EZE 14:13
LAM 5:4ISA 3:1 ISA 1:24
LAM 5:4DEU 28:48 JER 44:22
LAM 5:4DEU 28:48 JER 44:17-18
LAM 5:4ISA 3:1 JER 38:9

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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