Old Testament · VERSE 4

Lamentations 5:4

King James Version

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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Lamentations 5:4 in context

Lamentations 5:2

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4SELECTED VERSE

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:5

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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