Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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

We must pay for the water we drink;
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.

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁתה 
Shathah 
Usage: 218

כּסף 
Keceph 
Usage: 403

is sold

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

References

Easton

Verse Info

Context Readings

A Request For Mercy

3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us. 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Cross References

Isaiah 3:1

For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

Ezekiel 4:9-17

Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; [according to] the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.

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