Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
WEB
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
YLT
Fallen hath the crown from our head, Woe is now to us, for we have sinned.
DBT
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!
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