John Trapp on Lamentations 5:3-4

Ver. 3. We are orphans and fatherleſſe] And ſo are become thy clients: juſt objects of thy pitty, Hoſ. 14.3.

Offic. 1.Ver. 4. We have drunk our water for money] Fire, water, and air, are common good, quae jure naturae ſunt omnium & ſingulorum, ſaith Cicero. 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.