Lamentations 3:52
Those who are my enemies, without a cause, have chased me about like a bird.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye affecteth my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have shut up in the dungeon my life, and have cast stones upon me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Pardon, I pray thee, the trespass of thy hand-maid; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house; because the battles of the Lord doth my lord fight, and evil will not be found in thee all thy days.
Psalms 11:1“To the chief musician, by David.” In the Lord have I put my trust: how can ye say to my soul, Flee to your mountain as a bird?
Psalms 35:19Let not rejoice over me those that are my enemies wrongfully: [nor] let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.
Psalms 109:3Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me, and they fight against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15Thereupon were the princes wroth with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for that had they made into a prison-house.
Jeremiah 38:4Thereupon said the princes unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death; for the cause that he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that are yet left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words unto them; for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but their 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 →