Verse 4
Lam 5:4 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, saith Cicero. a Lysimachus paid dear for a cup of water when he parted with his kingdom for it. Dives would have done as much in hell for a drop, and could not have it.
Our wood is sold to us. ] This was strange to them - who had enough of their own growing, or might have it from the commons for fetching - but just upon them for their abuse of it to the service of the queen of heaven. Jer 7:18
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