Lamentations 3:52
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
53Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Forgive the iniquity of thy handmaid: for the Lord will surely make for my lord a faithful house, because thou, my lord, fightest the battles of the Lord: let not evil therefore be found in thee all the days of thy life.
Psalms 11:1Unto the end. A psalm for David.
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me : who have hated me without cause, and wink with the eyes.
Psalms 109:3They have spoken against with deceitful tongues; and they have compassed me about with words of hatred; and have fought against me without cause.
Jeremiah 37:15So Jeremias went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremias remained there many days.
Jeremiah 38:4And the princes said to the king: We beseech thee that this man may be put to death: for on purpose he weakeneth the hands of the men of war, that remain in this city, and the hands of the people, speaking to them according to these words: for this man seeketh not peace to 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 →