Lamentations 3:52
Mine enemies hunted me down, 1 like a tzippor (bird), without cause. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51Mine eye affecteth mine nefesh 1 because of all the banot of my city. 1
53They have cut off my life in the bor (pit) 1 and cast an even (stone) upon me. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Forgive now the peysha of thine handmaid; for Hashem will certainly make adoni a bais ne'eman; because adoni fighteth the milchamot of Hashem, and ra'ah hath not been found in thee all thy yamim.
Psalms 11:1(For the one directing. Of Dovid) 1 how say ye to my nefesh, 1 Flee as a bird to your mountain? 1
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are mine oyevim 1 gloat over me; 1 neither let them wink with the eye 1 that have sinas chinom (baseless hatred) toward me. 1
Psalms 109:3They surrounded me also with divrei sinah (words of hatred); 1 and attacked me without cause. 1
Jeremiah 37:15Therefore the sarim were enraged with Yirmeyah, and had him beaten, and put him in house arrest in the Bais Yehonatan the Sofer; for they had made that the bais hakeleh (prison).
Jeremiah 38:4Therefore the sarim said unto HaMelech, Let now this ish be put to death; for thus he weakeneth the hands of the anshei hamilchamah that are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such devarim unto them; for this ish seeketh not the shalom of this people, but the 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 →