Lamentations 3:52

New English Translation

For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

Cross References

Psalm 109:3

They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.

Psalm 11:1

In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, “Flee to a mountain like a bird!

Psalm 119:161

Rulers pursue me for no reason, yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions.

Psalm 124:7

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter’s snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Psalm 35:19

Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!

Psalm 35:7

I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!

Jeremiah 37:18

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?

Lamentations 3:51

What my eyes see grieves me – all the suffering of the daughters in my city. צ (Tsade)

John 15:25

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’