Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

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

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.

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 Mine eye dealeth severely with my soul, because of all the daughters of my city. 52 They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause: 53 They have cut off, in the dungeon, my life, and have cast a stone upon me;



Cross References

Psalm 35:7

For, without cause, have they hid for me, in a ditch, their net, - Without cause, have they digged a pit for my life.

Psalm 35:19

Let not them who are falsely my foes rejoice over me, As for them who hate me without cause, let them not wink the eye!

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Lo! this day, have thine own eyes seen, how Yahweh had delivered thee up, to-day, into my hand in the cave, and, when one bade me slay thee, I looked with compassion upon thee, - and I said - I will not thrust forth my hand against my lord, for, the Anointed of Yahweh, is he!

1 Samuel 25:28-29

Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid, - for Yahweh, will certainly make, for my lord an assured house, for, the battles of Yahweh, is my lord fighting, and, wrong, shall not be found in thee, all thy days;

1 Samuel 26:18-20

And he said, Wherefore is it, that my lord is in pursuit of his servant? For what have I done? or what is in my hand that is wrong?

Psalm 11:1

In Yahweh, have I sought refuge. How can ye say to my soul, Flee to a mountain like a little bird;

Psalm 69:4

More than the hairs of my head, Are they who hate me without cause, - Firmer than my bones, Are they who are my foes for false cause, - What I had not plundered, then, had I to restore.

Psalm 109:3

And, with words of hatred, have they surrounded me, and have made war upon me without cause:

Psalm 119:161

[SHIN] Rulers, have persecuted me, without cause, But, of thy word, hath my heart stood in awe.

Jeremiah 37:15-16

Then were the princes wroth against Jeremiah, and smote him, - and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for that, had they made the prison.

Jeremiah 37:18

And Jeremiah said unto King Zedekiah, - What sin have I committed against thee, or against thy servants or against this people, that ye have delivered me up into prison?

Jeremiah 38:4-6

Then said the princes unto the king, - Let this man we pray thee, be put to death, for in this way, is he weakening the hands of the men of war who are left in this, city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking unto them such words as these; for, this man, is not seeking prosperity for this people but misfortune.

John 15:25

But -- that the word which, in their law, is written, might be fulfilled - They hated me without cause.

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