Lamentations 3:52
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off my life in a pit, and cast a stone upon me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28I pray thee, forgive the transgression of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a lasting house; because my lord fights the battles of Jehovah, and evil has not been found in thee all thy days.
Psalms 11:1{To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.} In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are wrongfully mine enemies rejoice over me; let them not wink with the eye that hate me without cause.
Psalms 109:3And with words of hatred have they encompassed me; and they fight against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in the place of confinement in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4And the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; for why should he weaken the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking to them according to these words? for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
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 →