“ We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. ”
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 i...
We have drank our (b) water for money; our wood is sold to us. (b) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
The Prophet here relates, that the people were denuded, that they labored under the want of water and of wood. He does not say that they were only deprived of corn and wine, he does not complai...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 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...
Our wood is sold unto us— Our wood came at a price upon our necks; Lamentations 5:5 . We are under persecution, &c. Houbigant. That numbers of the Israelites had no wood growing on their o...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. We have drunken our water for money. The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the over...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Our water... our wood. — The point of the complaint lies in the possessive pronoun. The Chaldæan conquerors were in possession of the country, and the very necessaries of life, which had been looke...
AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We h...
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...
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Ver. 4. We have drunk our water for money. ] Fire, water, and air are common good, quae iure naturae sunt omnium et singulorum, sai...
Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and others, to whom our lands are given. We are orph...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
This seemeth to refer to the state of the Jews in Babylon, where it is probable their adversaries made them buy both water and wood, which in the land of Canaan they had plentifully, and without any...
We have drunk our water for money, Our wood is sold to us. Previously the water from their springs and rivers, and from their own cisterns, had been freely available to them. Now they were being ch...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abraham, and of which his descendants had held possessi...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Deuteronomy 28:48 ; Ezekiel 4:9-17 ; Isaiah 3:1
Sold — Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.