Parallel Verses
NET Bible
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep 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.
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.
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.
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 have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 4 We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 5 We are pursued -- they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,
Deuteronomy 28:48
instead in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and poverty you will serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you. They will place an iron yoke on your neck until they have destroyed you.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
"As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side -- 390 days -- you will eat it.