He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
WEB
He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
YLT
My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.
DBT
He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
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