Lamentations 5:4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Lamentations 5:4

     5242   buying and selling













Jump to Previous
Bought Buy Drank Drink Drinking Drunk Drunken Money Pay Price Sold Water Wood
Jump to Next
Bought Buy Drank Drink Drinking Drunk Drunken Money Pay Price Sold Water Wood
Library
Whether an Angel Needs Grace in Order to Turn to God?
Objection 1: It would seem that the angel had no need of grace in order to turn to God. For, we have no need of grace for what we can accomplish naturally. But the angel naturally turns to God: because he loves God naturally, as is clear from what has been said ([543]Q[60], A[5]). Therefore an angel did not need grace in order to turn to God. Objection 2: Further, seemingly we need help only for difficult tasks. Now it was not a difficult task for the angel to turn to God; because there was no obstacle
Saint Thomas Aquinas—Summa Theologica

Man's Inability to Keep the Moral Law
Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? No mere man, since the fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the commandments of God, but does daily break them, in thought, word, and deed. In many things we offend all.' James 3: 2. Man in his primitive state of innocence, was endowed with ability to keep the whole moral law. He had rectitude of mind, sanctity of will, and perfection of power. He had the copy of God's law written on his heart; no sooner did God command but he obeyed.
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

Lamentations
The book familiarly known as the Lamentations consists of four elegies[1] (i., ii., iii., iv.) and a prayer (v.). The general theme of the elegies is the sorrow and desolation created by the destruction of Jerusalem[2] in 586 B.C.: the last poem (v.) is a prayer for deliverance from the long continued distress. The elegies are all alphabetic, and like most alphabetic poems (cf. Ps. cxix.) are marked by little continuity of thought. The first poem is a lament over Jerusalem, bereft, by the siege,
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

Parallel Verses
NASB: We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.

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

Links
Lamentations 5:4 NIVLamentations 5:4 NLTLamentations 5:4 ESVLamentations 5:4 NASBLamentations 5:4 KJV
Resources
Lamentations 5:4 Bible Apps
Lamentations 5:4 Parallel
Lamentations 5:4 Biblia Paralela
Lamentations 5:4 Chinese Bible
Lamentations 5:4 French Bible
Lamentations 5:4 German Bible

Lamentations 5:4 Commentaries

Bible Hub
Lamentations 5:3
Top of Page
Top of Page