Lamentations 3:52
Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye affects my soul, || Because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off my life in a pit, || And they cast a stone against me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Please bear with the transgression of your handmaid, for YHWH certainly makes a steadfast house for my lord; for my lord has fought the battles of YHWH, and evil is not found in you [all] your days.
Psalms 11:1TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. In YHWH I trusted, how do you say to my soul, “They moved to your mountain [as] the bird?”
Psalms 35:19Do not let my enemies rejoice over me [with] falsehood, || Those hating me without cause wink the eye.
Psalms 109:3They have surrounded me about, || And they fight me without cause.
Jeremiah 37:15and the heads are angry against Jeremiah, and have struck him, and put him in the prison-house—the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it for a prison-house.
Jeremiah 38:4And the heads say to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its calamity.”
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 →