Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.In other versions
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
ASV
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
BBE
Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.
DBY
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
WEB
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
YLT
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
ENG
We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
WBT
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
BSB
In context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.