Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
WEB
All our enemies open their mouths against us.
YLT
Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
DBT
All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
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