Parallel Verses
Amplified
We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at 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.
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.
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
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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 orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.
We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at a price.
Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
Both supply and support, the whole supply of bread
And the whole supply of water;
Deuteronomy 28:48
you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
“But as for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and put them into one vessel and make them into bread for yourself. You shall eat it according to the number of the days that you lie on your side, three hundred and ninety days.