Lamentations 3:52 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, Without cause. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have been hunted down like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause. American Standard Version (1901) They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. Common English Bible My enemies hunted me down like a bird, relentlessly, for no reason. Catholic Public Domain Version SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. |
In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains;
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.
We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, “What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
It is to fulfil the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’