Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.
The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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