Lamentaciones 5:4

4 Tenemos que pagar por el agua que bebemos,
y hasta la leña es costosa.

Lamentaciones 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:4

We have drunken our water for money
They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths, had wells of water of their own, and water freely and in abundance, now were obliged to pay for it, for drink, and other uses: our wood is sold unto us;
or, "comes to us by a price" ^F18; and a dear one; in their own land they could have wood out of the forest, for cutting down and bringing home; but now they were forced to give a large price for it.

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FOOTNOTES:

F18 (waby ryxmb) "in pretio venerunt", Pagninus, Montanus; "caro nobis pretio veniunt", Michaelis.

Lamentaciones 5:4 In-Context

2 Se entregó nuestra herencia a extraños;
nuestras casas, a extranjeros.

3 Somos huérfanos, sin padre,
y nuestras madres son viudas.

4 Tenemos que pagar por el agua que bebemos,
y hasta la leña es costosa.

5 Los que nos persiguen nos pisan los talones;
estamos agotados pero no encontramos descanso.

6 Nos sometimos a Egipto y a Asiria
para conseguir alimentos y así sobrevivir.