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Lamentations 5:4

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

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Lamentations 5:4 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:4 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:4 in context

  1. 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our houses to aliens.
  2. 3We are orphans and fatherless.
    Our mothers are as widows.
  3. 4We have drunken our water for money.
    Our wood is sold to us.
  4. 5Our pursuers are on our necks.
    We are weary, and have no rest.
  5. 6We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
    and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.