Lamentations 3:52
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
American Standard Version
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 the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.
Psalms 11:1In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain;
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Psalms 109:3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4Then the princes said unto the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: 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 →