Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
WEB
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
YLT
Who is this--he hath said, and it is, And the Lord hath not commanded it ?
DBT
Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?
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