Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.
Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!
Thou givest to them a covered heart, Thy curse to them.
give them obduracy of heart, thy curse unto them;
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