Lamentations 3:52
They that are my enemies without cause hunt me down like a bird;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Mine eye is painful to me on account of all the daughters of my city.
53They take away my life in the dungeon; they cast a stone upon me;
Cross References
Psalms 11:1“For the leader of the music. A psalm of David.” In the LORD do I put my trust. Why say ye to me, “Flee, like a bird, to your mountain?
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully triumph over me; Let them not wink with the eye, who hate me without cause!
Psalms 109:3They assault me on every side with words of hatred; They fight against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15And the princes were enraged against Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that a prison.
Jeremiah 38:4Then said the princes to the king, “We beseech thee, let this man be put to death! for thus 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 to 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 →