Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
WEB
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
YLT
What--sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
DBT
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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