Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:52
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
51
my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the daughters of my city.
52
Hunted me down
Names
Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life.
Psalm 35:19
Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause.
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
1 Samuel 25:28-29
Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.
1 Samuel 26:18-20
And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?
Psalm 11:1
In the LORD I take refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee like a bird to your mountain,
Psalm 69:4
More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal must I now restore?
Psalm 109:3
They encircle me with words of hate, and attack me without cause.
Psalm 119:161
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
Jeremiah 37:18
Jeremiah also said to King Zedekiah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the officials said to the king, "Let this man be put to death, for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their harm."
John 15:25
But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: 'They hated me without a cause.'