Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
WEB
Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
YLT
Remember my affliction and my mourning, Wormwood and gall!
DBT
Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
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