Lamentations 3:52
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.”
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BSBPD
“Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:52 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 24:10Behold, 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 LORD’s anointed.’
- 1 Samuel 25:28Please 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.
- 1 Samuel 26:18And he continued, “Why is my lord pursuing his servant? What have I done? What evil is in my hand?
- Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
- Psalms 35:7For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.
- Psalms 35:19Let not my enemies gloat over me without cause, nor those who hate me without reason wink in malice.
- 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.
- Psalms 109:3They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
- Psalms 119:161Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
- Jeremiah 37:15The 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.
- 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 38:4Then 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 well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
- John 15:25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’
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