Lamentations 5:4
מֵימֵינוּ בְּכֶסֶף שָׁתִינוּ עֵצֵינוּ בִּמְחִיר יָבֹֽאוּ ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
In Context
3יְתוֹמִים הָיִינוּ אין אָב אִמֹּתֵינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת ׃
5עַל צַוָּארֵנוּ נִרְדָּפְנוּ יָגַעְנוּ לא הֽוּנַח לָֽנוּ ׃
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48וְעָבַדְתָּ אֶת ־ אֹיְבֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר יְשַׁלְּחֶנּוּ יְהוָה בָּךְ בְּרָעָב וּבְצָמָא וּבְעֵירֹם וּבְחֹסֶר כֹּל וְנָתַן עֹל בַּרְזֶל עַל ־ צַוָּארֶךָ עַד הִשְׁמִידוֹ אֹתָֽךְ ׃
Isaiah 3:1כִּי הִנֵּה הָאָדוֹן יְהוָה צְבָאוֹת מֵסִיר מִירוּשָׁלִַם וּמִיהוּדָה מַשְׁעֵן וּמַשְׁעֵנָה כֹּל מִשְׁעַן ־ לֶחֶם וְכֹל מִשְׁעַן ־ מָֽיִם ׃
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 →