Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
{We pay for water with money}, our wood comes [to us] at a price.
New American Standard Bible
We have to pay for our drinking water, 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 had to pay money to drink the water that belongs to us; our [own] wood is sold to us.
Bible in Basic English
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Darby Translation
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
Jubilee 2000 Bible
We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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.
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 21 Translations in Lamentations 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
3 We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows. 4 {We pay for water with money}, our wood comes [to us] at a price. 5 We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts [is] removing {every source of support} from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of [the] supplies of bread and all of [the] supplies of water,
Deuteronomy 28:48
then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you [under conditions of] famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck {until he has destroyed you}.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
"And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food [during] the number of days that you [are] lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it.