Lamentations 3:52
SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
53SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Forgive the iniquity of your handmaid. For the Lord will surely make for you, my lord, a faithful house, because you, my lord, fight the battles of the Lord. Therefore, let no evil be found in you all the days of your life.
Psalms 11:1Unto the end. For the octave. A Psalm of David.
Psalms 109:3It is with you from the beginning, in the day of your virtue, in the splendor of the saints. From conception, before the light-bearer, I begot you.
Jeremiah 37:15And so Jeremiah went into the house of the prison and into a dungeon. And Jeremiah sat there for many days.
Jeremiah 38:4And the leaders said to the king: “We petition you to put this man to death. For he is deliberately weakening the hands of the men of war, who have remained in this city, and the hands of the people, by speaking to them with these words. For this man is certainly not seeking peace for this people, but evil.”
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 →