Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
WEB
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
YLT
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
DBT
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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