Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
I called Thy name, O Jehovah, from the lower pit.
ASV
I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
WEB
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
DBT
I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowest pit.
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