Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
New American Standard Bible
Our wood comes to us at a price.
King James Version
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Holman Bible
our wood comes at a price.
International Standard Version
We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
A Conservative Version
We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
American Standard Version
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
Amplified
We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at a price.
Darby Translation
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
Julia Smith Translation
We drank our water for silver; our wood will come for a price.
King James 2000
We have drunk our water at a price; our wood is sold unto us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{We pay for water with money}, our wood comes [to us] at a price.
Modern King James verseion
We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are fain to drink our own water for money, and our own wood must we buy with money.
NET Bible
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
New Heart English Bible
We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
The Emphasized Bible
Our water - for silver, have we drunk, our wood - for a price, cometh in.
Webster
We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
World English Bible
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Youngs Literal Translation
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Interlinear
Mayim
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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows. 4 We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price. 5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;
Deuteronomy 28:48
For this cause you will become servants to those whom the Lord your God will send against you, without food and drink and clothing, and in need of all things: and he will put a yoke of iron on your neck till he has put an end to you.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.