Lamentations 5:4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Context
This verse from Lamentations 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 …
Autres traductions
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.
Références croisées
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 …
That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in …