Lamentations 3:52
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.
53They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
Psalms 11:1For the chief music-maker. Of David. In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Psalms 35:19Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.
Psalms 109:3Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
Jeremiah 37:15And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows 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 be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
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 →