with hateful words surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
Lamentations 3:52 - Tree of Life Version For no reason, my enemies hunted me down like a bird. 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. |
with hateful words surrounded me, and fought against me without cause.
For the music director, a psalm of David. In Adonai I have taken shelter. How can you say to my soul: “Fly like a bird to your mountain?
Princes persecute me for no reason, but my heart is in awe of Your words.
Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the snare of the trappers— the snare is broken, and we escaped!
Do not let my deceitful enemies gloat over me without cause, nor let those who hate me for nothing wink an eye.
For without cause they hid their net for me, and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
I am worn out by my crying, my throat is parched, my eyes fail, waiting for my God.
Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah: “How have I sinned against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
So is fulfilled the word written in their Scripture, ‘They hated Me for no reason.’