Lamentations 5:4
Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
In Context
3Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
5Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, whom Yahweh will send against thee, with hunger and with thirst and with nakedness, and with want of all things,—and he, will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee.
Isaiah 3:1For lo! the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, removing from Jerusalem and from Judah, The stay and staff,—The whole stay of bread, And the whole stay 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 →