Lamentations 3:52
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the LORD’s battles. Evil will not be found in you all your days.
Psalms 11:1In the LORD, I take refuge. How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
Psalms 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
Psalms 109:3They have also surrounded me with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”
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 →