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The Book of Lamentations

from the Young’s Literal Translation
Translated by Robert Young (1822-1888).

Young’s Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young produced a “Revised Version” of the translation in 1887. After he died on October 14, 1888, the publisher in 1898 released a new Revised Edition.

(Summary from Wikipedia)

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• CCEL e-text
• Wikipedia – Young’s Literal Translation
• Wikipedia – Book of Lamentations
• Wikipedia – Robert Young
• LibriVox’s The Book of Lamentations Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (11.3MB)
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Total running time: 0:23:38
Read by “Mark Penfold”

mp3 and ogg files

• Chapters 1-5 – 00:23:38
  [mp3@64kbps - 11.3MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 22.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 11.8MB]

Cataloged on February 24, 2008