“I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
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.
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
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?
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
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?
In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, “Flee like a bird to your mountain,
We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!
my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.