Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

צ TsadeFor no apparent reason, my enemies
hunted me like a bird.

International Standard Version

My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification.

A Conservative Version

They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;

Bible in Basic English

They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Hunting, they hunted me as a bird, mine enemies, gratuitously.

King James 2000

My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird.

Modern King James verseion

My haters have hunted me, like a bird, without cause.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

{Tsadi} Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird; yea, and that without a cause.

NET Bible

(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

New Heart English Bible

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

The Emphasized Bible

They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:

Webster

My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.

World English Bible

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אויב איב 
'oyeb 
Usage: 272

צוּד 
Tsuwd 
Usage: 18

me sore
צוּד 
Tsuwd 
Usage: 18

צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Israel's Affliction

51 My eyes bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.
52 My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;
53 They have silenced me in the pit
And have placed a stone on me.



Cross References

Psalm 35:7

For without cause they hid their net for me;
Without cause they dug a pit for my soul.

Psalm 35:19

Do not let those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me;
Nor let those who hate me without cause wink maliciously.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

1 Samuel 25:28-29

Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

1 Samuel 26:18-20

He also said, “Why then is my lord pursuing his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

Psalm 11:1

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

Psalm 69:4

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head;
Those who would destroy me are powerful, being wrongfully my enemies;
What I did not steal, I then have to restore.

Psalm 109:3

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,
And fought against me without cause.

Psalm 119:161

Shin.
Princes persecute me without cause,
But my heart stands in awe of Your words.

Jeremiah 37:15-16

Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison.

Jeremiah 37:18

Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

Jeremiah 38:4-6

Then the officials said to the king, “Now let this man be put to death, inasmuch as he is discouraging the men of war who are left in this city and all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man is not seeking the well-being of this people but rather their harm.”

John 15:25

But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’

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