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Lamentations 5:4 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.Lamentations 5:4 · King James Version
Lamentations 5:4 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- drunkenshâthâhto imbibeH8354 →
- watermayimwaterH4325 →
- moneykeçephsilverH3701 →
- woodʻêtsa treeH6086 →
- soldbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16