Lamentations 3:52
Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie.
53They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me.
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 →