Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
WEB
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
YLT
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
DBT
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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