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Lamentations 5:4
New English Translation

4 We must pay money[a] for our own water;[b]
we must buy our own wood at a steep price.[c]

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  1. Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “silver.” The term “silver” is a synecdoche of the particular (= silver) for the general (= money).
  2. Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “We drink our water for silver.”
  3. Lamentations 5:4 tn Heb “our wood comes for a price.”
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Lamentations 5:4
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4 We must buy the water we drink;(A)
    our wood can be had only at a price.(B)

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