Lamentations 3:52 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

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.

Lamentations 3:52 Cross References

Psalm 109:3

They beset 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 thy words.

Psalm 124:7

We have escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

Psalm 35:19

Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.

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; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. 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 maidens of my city.

John 15:25

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