Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
WEB
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
YLT
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song.
DBT
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
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