Lamentations 5:4 · KJV
“We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}”
— Lamentations 5:4
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.
Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
Lamentations 5 — Context
Our 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. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
5Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
6We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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,
Ezekiel 4:9-17
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, {according} to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof. {fitches: or, spelt}
Deuteronomy 28:48
Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all {things}: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.