Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
For the mount of Zion--that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.
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