Lamentations 5:4
“We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.”
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Lamentations 5:4 Context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants. 3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes. 4We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest. 6We haue giuen the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
- King James Version
We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes {to us} at a price.
- New American Standard Version (1995)