Lamentations 3:52 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵² They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine 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 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

Psalm 35:7

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, Without cause have they digged a pit for my soul.

John 15:25

But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Jeremiah 37:18

Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

Psalm 119:161

Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.

Psalm 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

Psalm 69:4

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: Then I restored that which I took not away.

Psalm 11:1

In the LORD put I my trust: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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

Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.