Lamentations 5:2-4
New International Reader's Version
2 The land you gave us has been turned over to outsiders.
Our homes have been given to strangers.
3 Our fathers have been killed.
Our mothers don’t have husbands.
4 We have to buy the water we drink.
We have to pay for the wood we use.
Lamentations 5:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, our houses to the aliens.
3 We are fatherless, even without father, and our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunk our [a]water for money, and our wood is sold unto us.
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- Lamentations 5:4 Meaning, their extreme servitude and bondage.
Lamentations 5:2-4
King James Version
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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