Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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