Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.
WEB
So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
YLT
And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.
DBT
And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
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