Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
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