Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
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