Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.
DBT
He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;
WEB
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.
YLT
He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid it upon him.
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