Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
Remember well, and bow down doth my soul in me.
ASV
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
WEB
Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
DBT
My soul hath [them] constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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