Lamentations 5:4
Strong's Lexicon
We must buy
בְּכֶ֣סֶף (bə·ḵe·sep̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3701: 1) silver, money 1a) silver 1a1) as metal 1a2) as ornament 1a3) as colour 1b) money, shekels, talents

the water
מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙ (mê·mê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: 1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

we drink;
שָׁתִ֔ינוּ (šā·ṯî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 8354: 1) to drink 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to drink 1a1a) of drinking cup of God's wrath, of slaughter, of wicked deeds (fig) 1a2) to feast 1b) (Niphal) to be drunk

our wood
עֵצֵ֖ינוּ (‘ê·ṣê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6086: 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows 1a) tree, trees 1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax

comes
יָבֹֽאוּ׃ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to enter, come in 1a2) to come 1a2a) to come with 1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy) 1a2c) to come to pass 1a3) to attain to 1a4) to be enumerated 1a5) to go 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to lead in 1b2) to carry in 1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon 1b4) to bring to pass 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be brought, brought in 1c2) to be introduced, be put

at a price.
בִּמְחִ֥יר (bim·ḥîr)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4242: 1) price, hire 1a) price 1b) hire, reward, gain

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

Young's Literal Translation
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

New American Standard Bible
We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes [to us] at a price.

King James Bible
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

New Living Translation
We have to pay for water to drink, and even firewood is expensive.

English Standard Version
We must pay for the water we drink; the wood we get must be bought.

New American Standard Bible
We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We must pay for the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

International Standard Version
We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.

NET Bible
We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

American Standard Version
We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

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

Young's Literal Translation
Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
















Cross References
Isaiah 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

Isaiah 55:1
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

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.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
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