Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.
ASV
The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
WEB
The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
DBT
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
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