Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high 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.
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.
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
`ets
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
3 We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows. 4 We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. 5 Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
"Note this! The Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies is taking away from Jerusalem and Judah everything that your society needs all food supplies and all water supplies,
Deuteronomy 28:48
you'll serve your enemies whom the LORD your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought, in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They'll set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they have exterminated you.
Ezekiel 4:9-17
"Furthermore, you are to take some wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, and mix them together in one container. Then you are to make bread from these grains sufficient to supply you through the time during which you'll be sleeping on your side. You are to eat it for 390 days.