Lamentations 3:52
TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all my enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Remove, I pray you, the trespass of your servant; for the Lord will surely make for my lord a sure house, for the Lord fights the battles of my lord, and there shall no evil be ever found in you.
Psalms 11:1Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for + 11:1 Gr. truths are become rare truth is diminished from among the children of men. 1
Psalms 109:3With you is dominion in the day of your power, in the splendors of + 109:3 Or, holiness, i.e. holy things. your saints: I have begotten you from the womb before the morning. 1
Jeremiah 37:15Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, therefore they have done these things to you. Therefore all that devour you shall be eaten, and all your enemies shall eat all their own flesh.
Jeremiah 38:4For I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: you shall yet take your timbrel, and go forth with the party of them that make merry.
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 →