The Meaning of Lamentations 5:4 Explained

Lamentations 5:4

KJV: We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

YLT: Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

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

ASV: We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

We have drunken  our water  for money;  our wood  is sold  unto us. 

What does Lamentations 5:4 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Lamentations 5

1  A complaint of Zion in prayer unto God

What do the individual words in Lamentations 5:4 mean?

The water for we pay we drink our wood at a price and comes
מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙ בְּכֶ֣סֶף שָׁתִ֔ינוּ עֵצֵ֖ינוּ בִּמְחִ֥יר יָבֹֽאוּ

מֵימֵ֙ינוּ֙  The  water 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: מַיִם  
Sense: water, waters.
בְּכֶ֣סֶף  for  we  pay 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֶּסֶף  
Sense: silver, money.
שָׁתִ֔ינוּ  we  drink 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common plural
Root: שָׁתָה  
Sense: to drink.
עֵצֵ֖ינוּ  our  wood 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, first person common plural
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
בִּמְחִ֥יר  at  a  price 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מְחִיר  
Sense: price, hire.
יָבֹֽאוּ  and  comes 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: בֹּוא 
Sense: to go in, enter, come, go, come in.

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