Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsRemember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.
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