Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.
WEB
“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
YLT
We--we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou--Thou hast not forgiven.
DBT
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
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