Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
WEB
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
YLT
To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,
DBT
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
- Author
- Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
- Date
- Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC