Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYLT
My voice Thou hast heard, Hide not Thine ear at my breathing--at my cry.
ASV
Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
WEB
You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”
DBT
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my sighing, at my cry.
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