Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
WEB
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.
YLT
Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
DBT
Lord, thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul, thou hast redeemed my life.
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