Without cause, my enemies snared me as though I were a bird;
with hateful words they surround me, attacking me without cause.
For the leader. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, “Flee like a bird to the mountains!
Princes persecute me without reason, but my heart reveres only your word.
We escaped with our lives like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare was broken, and we escaped.
Do not let lying foes rejoice over me, my undeserved enemies wink knowingly.
Without cause they set their snare for me; without cause they dug a pit for me.
I am weary with crying out; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, from looking for my God.
Jeremiah then asked King Zedekiah: “How have I wronged you or your officials or this people, that you should put me in prison?
I am tormented by the sight of all the daughters of my city.
But in order that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, ‘They hated me without cause.’