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Lamentations 5:4

We must pay for the water we drink;

the wood we get must be bought.

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Lamentations 5:4 — The New International Version (NIV)

We must buy the water we drink;

our wood can be had only at a price.

Lamentations 5:4 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:4 — New Living Translation (NLT)

We have to pay for water to drink,

and even firewood is expensive.

Lamentations 5:4 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

We pay for the water we drink,

And our wood comes at a price.

Lamentations 5:4 — New Century Version (NCV)

We have to buy the water we drink;

we must pay for the firewood.

Lamentations 5:4 — American Standard Version (ASV)

We have drunken our water for money;

Our wood is sold unto us.

Lamentations 5:4 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

Lamentations 5:4 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

We have to pay to drink our own water. 

We have to pay to chop our own wood. 

Lamentations 5:4 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

We must pay for the water we drink;

our wood comes at a price.

Lamentations 5:4 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

We must pay for the water we drink;

the wood we get must be bought.

Lamentations 5:4 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

We pay for water with money,

our wood comes to us at a price.

Lamentations 5:4 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

We have to buy the water we drink.

We have to pay for the wood we use.

Lamentations 5:4 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

We have to pay for our drinking water,

Our wood comes to us at a price.


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