| Geneva Study Bible We have drank our {b} water for money; our wood is sold to us. (b) Meaning their extreme servitude and bondage. Wesley's Notes 5:4 Sold - Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea. King James Translators' Notes is...: Heb. cometh for price Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 4. water for money-The Jews were compelled to pay the enemy for the water of their own cisterns after the overthrow of Jerusalem; or rather, it refers to their sojourn in Babylon; they had to pay tax for access to the rivers and fountains. Thus, "our" means the water which we need, the commonest necessary of life. our wood-In Judea each one could get wood without pay; in Babylon, "our wood," the wood we need, must be paid for. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his pardoning mercy, his sanctifying grace, and his kind providence. But the sins of a man's whole life will be punished with vengeance at last, unless he obtains an interest in Him who bare our sins in his own body on the tree. | 
