Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
WEB
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
YLT
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
DBT
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
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