Lamentations 3:52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.

English Standard Version
“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;

New American Standard Bible
My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;

King James Bible
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For no apparent reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.

International Standard Version
My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification.

American Standard Version
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Darby Bible Translation
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

Young's Literal Translation
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.

Cross References

1 Samuel 26:20
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.

Psalm 11:1
In the LORD put I my trust: how say you to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Psalm 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have dig for my soul.

Psalm 35:19
Let not them that are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalm 124:7
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Lamentations 3:51
My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

52-54. a bird—which is destitute of counsel and strength. The allusion seems to be to Pr 1:17 [Calvin].

without cause—(Ps 69:4; 109:3, 4). Type of Messiah (Joh 15:25).