Lamentations 5:4
We must pay kesef for our own mayim; 1 our wood is sold unto us. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
In Context
3We are yetomim and fatherless, 1 immoteinu are like almanot. 1
5Our necks are under persecution; 1 we are weary, and have no rest. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which Hashem shall send against thee, in ra'av (hunger, famine), and in tzama (thirst), and in eirom (nakedness), and in choser (want) of all things; and He shall put an ol barzel (yoke of iron) upon thy tzavvar (neck), until He hath made thee shmad.
Isaiah 3:1For, hinei, HaAdon, Hashem Tzva'os, 1 doth take away from Yerushalayim and from Yehudah 1 supply and support, 1 the whole supply of lechem, 1 and the whole supply of mayim. 1
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →