Lamentations 3:52
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Lamentations 3:52 in other translations
| BSB | Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird. |
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| WEB | They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. |
| ASV | They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
| YLT | Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause. |
| DARBY | They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird. |
| BBE | They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird; |
| Webster | My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause. |
What does Lamentations 3:52 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:52-54
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.
Lamentations 3:52 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:52
- Psalms 35:19
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
- Psalms 35:7
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
- Jeremiah 38:4-6
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
- Psalms 69:4
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
- John 15:25
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
- 1 Samuel 24:10-15
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed. Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. …
- 1 Samuel 25:28-29
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the Lord will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the Lord, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
- Psalms 11:1
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. In the Lord put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
- Psalms 119:161
ש SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
- Jeremiah 37:15-16
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;
- Psalms 109:3
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
- Jeremiah 37:18
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
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- Lamentations 3:51
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
- Lamentations 3:52
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
- Lamentations 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:52 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mis enemigos me dieron caza como á ave, sin por qué. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ceux qui sont mes ennemis sans cause m’ont donné la chasse comme à l’oiseau. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie einen Vogel haben mich heftig gejagt, die ohne Ursache meine Feinde sind. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis. |