Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
WEB
to deny a man justice before the Most High,
YLT
To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,
DBT
to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
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