Ratapan 5:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Air kami kami minum dengan membayar, kami mendapat kayu dengan bayaran.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Air kami kami minum dengan membayar, kami mendapat kayu dengan bayaran.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Air minumpun kami beli dengan uang juga dan kayu apipun kami bayar besar harganya.

Contextual Overview

¹ Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion. ² Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts. ³ We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes. ⁴ We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money. ⁵ Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest. ⁶ [Aforetime] we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, [and nowe] to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough. ⁷ Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse. ⁸ Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes. ⁹ We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse. ¹⁰ Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

have: Deuteronomy 28:48, Isaiah 3:1, Ezekiel 4:9-17

is sold: Heb. cometh for price

Reciprocal: Judges 5:11 - the noise

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 5:1
This is the booke of the generations of Ada. In the day that God created man, in the lykenesse of God made he hym.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:7
And Seth lyued after he begat Enos eyght hundreth and seuen yeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:10
And Enos lyued after he begate Kenan eyght hundreth & fiftie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:13
And Kenan liued after he begate Mahalaleel eyght hudreth & fourtie yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:19
And Iered liued after he begat Henoch, eyght hundreth yeres, & begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Genesis 5:26
And agayne Methusalah lyued after he begat Lamech seue hundreth eightie and two yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Genesis 5:30
And Lamech lyued after he begat Noah, fiue hudreth ninetie & fiue yeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" r; 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.

r במחיר יבאו "in pretio venerunt", Pagninus, Montanus; "caro nobis pretio veniunt", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Better as in the margin cometh to us for price. The rendering of the the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. The bitterness of the complaint lies in this, that it was their own property which they had to buy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Lamentations 5:4. We have drunken our water for money — I suppose the meaning of this is, that every thing was taxed by the Chaldeans, and that they kept the management in their own hands, so that wood and water were both sold, the people not being permitted to help themselves. They were now so lowly reduced by servitude, that they were obliged to pay dearly for those things which formerly were common and of no price. A poor Hindoo in the country never buys fire-wood, but when he comes to the city he is obliged to purchase his fuel, and considers it as a matter of great hardship.