And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.
- Author
- Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
- Date
- Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile