Lamentations 3:52
They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid. For LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of LORD, and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.
Psalms 11:1In LORD I take refuge. How will ye say to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain.
Psalms 35:19Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
Psalms 109:3They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this ma
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →