Lamentations 3:52
My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye affecteth my heart because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thy handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
Psalms 11:1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the LORD I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Psalms 35:19Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
Psalms 109:3They encompassed me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Jeremiah 37:15Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 38:4Therefore the princes said 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 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 →