King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:4
“We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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