4 We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:4 Cross References - MLV
Deuteronomy 28:48
48 therefore you will serve your enemies that Jehovah will send against you, in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things. And he will put a yoke of iron upon your neck, until he has destroyed you.
Isaiah 3:1
1 For, behold, the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and staff, the whole support of bread and the whole support of water,
Ezekiel 4:9-17
9 Also take to you wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt and put them in one vessel and make you bread of it, according to the number of the days that you will lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, you will eat of it.
10 And your food which you will eat will be by weight, twenty shekels a day. You will eat it from time to time.
11 And you will drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin. You will drink from time to time.
12 And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. 13 And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
14 Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, 17 that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.
12 And you will eat it as barley cakes and you will bake it in their sight with manure that comes out of man. 13 And Jehovah said, Even thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will drive them.
14 Then I said, Ah lord Jehovah! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of what dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's manure for man's manure and you will prepare your bread of it.
16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem and they will eat bread by weight and with fearfulness and they will drink water by measure and in dismay, 17 that they may lack bread and water and be dismayed one with another and pine away in their iniquity.