Lamentations 3:52
The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, 1 All mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause, 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, 1 Because of all the daughters of the city. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Remove, I pray thee, the trespass of thy 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 thee.
Psalms 11:1For the end, a Psalm of David, upon the eighth. 1
Psalms 109:3With thee is dominion in the day of thy power, 1 In the splendors of thy saints: 1 I have begotten thee from the womb before the morning. 1
Jeremiah 38:4For I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet take thy 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 →