NEW WORLD TRANSLATION FOR PIDGIN HOLY BIBLE

Lamentations—Things Wey Dey Inside This Book

Pidgin (West Africa)
Lamentations—Things Wey Dey Inside This Book
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nwt Lamentations

The Book of Lamentations

Chapters

1 2 3 4 5

Things Wey Dey Inside This Book

  • 1

    • Them talk about Jerusalem like say e be widow

      • E sitdown alone and them don abandon-am (1)

      • Zion big sins (8, 9)

      • God reject Zion (12-15)

      • Nobody dey to make Zion mind come down (17)

  • 2

    • Jehovah vex for Jerusalem no be small

      • E no feel for-am (2)

      • Jehovah be like enemy to-am (5)

      • Cry-cry because of Zion (11-13)

      • People wey de pass de laugh the city wey really fine before (15)

      • Enemies de happy say Zion don fall (17)

  • 3

    • Jeremiah talk about how e de feel and im hope

      • “I go dey patient and wait” (21)

      • God mercy dey new every morning (22, 23)

      • God dey good to the people wey get hope for-am (25)

      • E good make young people carry the yoke (27)

      • God use cloud block people make them no fit near-am (43, 44)

  • 4

    • Serious problems wey dey as them surround Jerusalem

      • Food no dey (4, 5, 9)

      • Women de cook their own children (10)

      • Jehovah don pour out im vex (11)

  • 5

    • People pray say make God make things better

      • “Remember wetin don happen to us” (1)

      • ‘Trouble dey for us; we don sin’ (16)

      • “O Jehovah, bring us back” (21)

      • “Make our days dey new” (21)