Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
WEB
Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.
YLT
Fear and a snare hath been for us, Desolation and destruction.
DBT
Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.
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