Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
WEB
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
YLT
Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.
DBT
Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;
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