Lamentations 5:4

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We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

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  • Isa 3:1 : 1 See now, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, is removing from Jerusalem and Judah support and supply, both bread and water.
  • Ezek 4:9-9 : 9 Take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in one container, and make bread for yourself. For the number of days that you lie on your side—three hundred ninety days—you will eat it. 10 The amount you eat each day will be twenty shekels by weight, and you will eat it at set times each day. 11 You are to drink water by measure, a sixth of a hin, at set times each day. 12 Eat it as you would a barley cake, baking it over human dung in their sight. 13 The Lord said, 'In this way the people of Israel will eat their defiled bread among the nations where I will drive them.' 14 Then I said, 'Ah, Lord God, I have never been defiled! From my youth until now, I have never eaten anything that died naturally or was torn by animals. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.' 15 He said to me, 'Look, I have given you cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may use it to bake your bread.' 16 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.' 17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'
  • Deut 28:48 : 48 You will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you, in hunger, thirst, nakedness, and total destitution. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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