Lamentations 3:52
I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies; they hunted me without a reason. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eyes cause me grief because of all the daughters of my city. 1
53They cast me into a pit and they threw a stone on me, 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your servant, for Yahweh will certainly make my master a sure house, because my master is fighting the battles of Yahweh; and evil will not be found in you so long as you live.
Psalms 11:1I take refuge in Yahweh; 1 how will you say to me, 1 “Flee like a bird to the mountain”? 1
Psalms 35:19Do not let my deceitful enemies rejoice over me; 1 do not let them carry out their wicked schemes. 1
Psalms 109:3They surround me and say hateful things, 1 and they attack me without cause. 1
Jeremiah 37:15The officials were angry with Jeremiah. They beat him and put him in prison, which had been the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had turned it into a prison.
Jeremiah 38:4So the officials said to the king, “Let this man die, for in this way he is weakening the hands of the fighting men who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people. He is proclaiming these words, for this man is not working for safety for this people, but disaster.”
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 →