Lamentations 5:4
We have to pay for a drink of water;our wood is sold to us.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
In Context
3We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
5Our pursuers are on our necks;we are weary, and have no rest.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
Isaiah 3:1For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support,the whole supply of bread,and the whole supply of water;
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 →