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Lamentations 5:4
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Lamentations 5:4
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We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
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Lamentations 5:4 in Other Translations
KJV
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
ESV
4
We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.
NLT
4
We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.
MSG
4
We have to pay to drink our own water. Even our firewood comes at a price.
CSB
4
We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Lamentations 5:4 In-Context
2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3
We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
5
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
6
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
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2
1.
S
Isaiah 55:1
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Ezekiel 4:16-17
2.
Isaiah 3:1
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