Lamentations 3:52
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
In Context
51My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.
53They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 25:28'Bear, I pray thee, with the transgression of thy handmaid, for Jehovah doth certainly make to my lord a stedfast house; for the battles of Jehovah hath my lord fought, and evil is not found in thee [all] thy days.
Psalms 11:1To the Overseer. — By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, 'They moved [to] Thy mountain for the bird?
Psalms 35:19Mine enemies rejoice not over me [with] falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.
Psalms 109:3They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.
Jeremiah 37:15and the heads are wroth against Jeremiah, and have smitten him, and put him in the prison-house — the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it they had made for a prison-house.
Jeremiah 38:4And the heads say unto the king, 'Let, we pray thee, this man be put to death, because that he is making feeble the hands of the men of war, who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them according to these words, for this man is not seeking for the peace of this people, but for its evil.'
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 →