Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
WEB
He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
YLT
A bear lying in wait He is to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.
DBT
He is unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, a lion in secret places.
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