Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTill Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
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