Klagelieder 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Context
This verse from Klagelieder Chapter 5 connects to 4 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Andere Übersetzungen
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Querverweise
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in …
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the …
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in …
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.