They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,\par\tab And fought against me without a cause.
Lamentations 3:52 - American Standard Version 2015 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, Without cause. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I have been hunted down like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause. American Standard Version (1901) They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. Common English Bible My enemies hunted me down like a bird, relentlessly, for no reason. Catholic Public Domain Version SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause. |
They have compassed me about also with words of hatred,\par\tab And fought against me without a cause.
{\b For the Chief Musician. {\i A Psalm} of David.}\par\par\tab In Jehovah do I take refuge:\par\tab How say ye to my soul,\par\tab Flee {\i as} a bird to your mountain;
{\b SHIN.}\par\par\tab Princes have persecuted me without a cause;\par\tab But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers:\par\tab The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me;\par\tab Neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
For without cause have they hid for me their net {\i in} a pit;\par\tab Without cause have they digged {\i a pit} for my soul.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head:\par\tab They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty:\par\tab That which I took not away I have to restore.
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
But {\i this cometh to pass}, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in their law, {\b They hated me without a cause.}