Lamentations 5:4

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Context

v.3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

v.4This passage

v.5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 28:48

    therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

  • Isaiah 3:1

    For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;

  • Ezekiel 4:9

    Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, even three hundred and ninety days, shalt thou eat thereof.