Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
WEB
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
YLT
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
DBT
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
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