Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
WEB
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
YLT
Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!
DBT
pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
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