KJV
King James VersionLamentations 5:4 (KJV)
“We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.”
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Context
Lamentations 5 — surrounding verses
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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5We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.