Better, as in the margin, it signifies 'price' to us. The rendering of the King James Version spoils the carefully studied rhythm of the original. …

Our water ... our wood. —The point of the complaint lies in the possessive pronoun. The Chaldean conquerors were in possession of …

The Prophet here relates that the people were stripped bare, that they suffered from a lack of water and wood. He does not say that they were only …

We have drunk our water for money
They who in their own land, which was a land of brooks of water, of fountains and …

Is anyone afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they do not complain of evils…