Lamentations 3:52

New International Reader's Version

Those who were my enemies for no reason at all hunted me down as if I were a bird.

Cross References

Psalm 109:3

They gather all around me with their words of hatred. They attack me without any reason.

Psalm 11:1

I run to the Lord for safety. So how can you say to me, “Fly away like a bird to your mountain.

Psalm 119:161

Rulers attack me for no reason. But I tremble because of your word.

Psalm 124:7

We have escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.

Psalm 35:19

Don’t let those who are my enemies without any reason laugh at me and make fun of me. Don’t let those who hate me without any reason wink at me with an evil purpose.

Psalm 35:7

They set a trap for me without any reason. Without any reason they dug a pit to catch me.

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without any reason are more than the hairs on my head. Many people who don’t have any reason to be my enemies are trying to destroy me. They force me to give back what I didn’t steal.

Jeremiah 37:18

Then Jeremiah continued, “Why have you put me in prison? What crime have I committed against you? What have I done to your attendants or these people?

Lamentations 3:51

What I see brings pain to my spirit. All the women of my city are mourning.

John 15:25

This has happened so that what is written in their Law would come true. It says, ‘They hated me without any reason.’ (Psalms 35:19; 69:4)