Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
Mine eye is poured out, And doth not cease without intermission,
Mine eye poureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
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