Lamentations 3:52

In 11 translations

BSB

Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

KJV

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

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.

LSV

Hunting—my enemies have hunted me without cause like the bird.

YLT

Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.

DBY

They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.

DRC

Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

GNV

Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.

JPS

They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.

LXXE

Tsade. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,

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Original-language editions

WLC

צ֥וֹד צָד֛וּנִי כַּצִּפּ֖וֹר אֹיְבַ֥י חִנָּֽם׃

LXX-Br

ΤΣΑΔΗ. Θηρεύοντες ἐθήρευσάν με ὡς στρουθίον· πάντες οἱ ἐχθροί μου δωρεὰν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
• Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
• 1 Samuel 25:28–29Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live. And should someone pursue you…
• John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
• 1 Samuel 24:10–15Behold, this day you have seen with your own eyes that the LORD delivered you into my hand in the cave. I was told to kill you, but I spared you and said, ‘I will not lift my hand against my lord, since he is the…
• 1 Samuel 26:18–20And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand? Now please, may my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the LORD has stirred you up against me, then may He…
• Psalms 69:4Those who hate me without cause outnumber the hairs of my head; many are those who would destroy me— my enemies for no reason. Though I did not steal, I must repay.
• Jeremiah 37:15–16The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison. So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a…
• Psalms 119:161Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
• Psalms 109:3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
• Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
• Jeremiah 37:18Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
• Jeremiah 38:4–6Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the…

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