Lamentations 3:52 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵² Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵² Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, Without cause.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵² I have been hunted down like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵² They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Common English Bible

⁵² My enemies hunted me down like a bird, relentlessly, for no reason.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵² SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵² Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Lamentations 3:52 Cross References

Psalm 109:3

They surround me with words of hate and attack me without cause.

Psalm 11:1

In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains,

Psalm 119:161

Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

Psalm 124:7

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the hunters; the snare is broken, and we have escaped.

Psalm 35:19

Do not let my treacherous enemies rejoice over me or those who hate me without cause wink the eye.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.

Psalm 69:4

More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; many are those who would destroy me, my enemies who accuse me falsely. What I did not steal, must I now restore?

Jeremiah 37:18

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?

Lamentations 3:51

My eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the young women in my city.

John 15:25

It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’