Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
With words of hatred they surround me; they attack me without cause.
In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain.
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles at your word.
We have escaped like a bird from the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
Do not let those gloat over me who are my enemies without cause; do not let those who hate me without reason maliciously wink the eye.
Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me,
Those who hate me without reason outnumber the hairs of my head; many are my enemies without cause, those who seek to destroy me. I am forced to restore what I did not steal.
Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your attendants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without reason.’