World English Bible
Lamentations 5:4
“We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to 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 to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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