Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
WEB
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
YLT
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,
DBT
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
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