Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
WEB
to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
YLT
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.
DBT
to wrong a man in his cause, — will not the Lord see it?
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