Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
New American Standard Bible
Hunted me down
King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
Holman Bible
צ Tsade
hunted me like a bird.
International Standard Version
My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:52
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
51 My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. 52 They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have hid their net for me [in] a pit. Without cause have they dug [a pit] for my soul.
Psalm 35:19
Let not those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me. Neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that LORD had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave. And some bade me kill thee, but [I] spared thee. And I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord, for he is LORD's anoi
1 Samuel 25:28-29
Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid. For LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of LORD, and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.
1 Samuel 26:18-20
And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?
Psalm 11:1
In LORD I take refuge. How will ye 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 cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore.
Psalm 109:3
They have also encompassed me about with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
Psalm 119:161
Rulers have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of thy words.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 37:18
Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, How have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death, inasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this ma
John 15:25
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.