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Lamentations 5:4-5

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5:4 We must pay money 1  for our own water; 2 

we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 3 

5:5 We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks; 4 

we are weary and have no rest. 5 

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[5:4]  1 tn Heb “silver.” The term “silver” is a synecdoche of species (= silver) for general (= money).

[5:4]  2 tn Heb “We drink our water for silver.”

[5:4]  3 tn Heb “our wood comes for a price.”

[5:5]  4 tn Heb “We are hard-driven on our necks”

[5:5]  5 sn For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13; 11:23; 2 Sam 7:1, 11; 1 Chron 22:18; 2 Chron 14:6-7



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