Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification.
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.
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 What I see grieves my soul because of all the young women of my city. 52 My enemies hunted me like a bird, viciously and without justification. 53 They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
Without justification they laid a snare for me; without justification they dug a pit to trap me.
Psalm 35:19
Do not let my deceitful enemies gloat over me, nor let those who hate me without justification mock me with their eyes.
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Look, this very day you saw with your own eyes that the LORD gave you into my control in the cave, and one of my men told me to kill you, but I had pity on you and responded, "I won't lift my hand against his majesty because he's the LORD's anointed.'
1 Samuel 25:28-29
Please forgive the offense of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make a strong dynasty for your majesty, for your majesty is fighting the LORD's battles. May evil not be found in you for all of your life.
1 Samuel 26:18-20
David replied, "It is my voice, your majesty." David said, "Why is your majesty pursuing his servant? For what have I done, and what evil do I bear toward you?
Psalm 11:1
I take refuge in the LORD. So how can you say to me, "Flee like a bird to the mountains."?
Psalm 69:4
Those who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. My persecutors are mighty, and they want to destroy me. Must I be forced to return what I did not steal?
Psalm 109:3
They surround me with hate-filled words, attacking me for no reason.
Psalm 119:161
Though nobles persecute me for no reason, my heart stands in awe of your words.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
The officials were angry with Jeremiah and beat him. They put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe because they had made it into a prison.
Jeremiah 37:18
Jeremiah said, "There is," and then he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon." Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What offense have I committed against you, your officials, or these people that you have put me in prison?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the officials told the king, "Let this man be put to death because he's undermining the efforts of the soldiers who remain in this city and that of all the people by speaking words like these to them. Indeed, this man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but rather their harm."
John 15:25
But this happened so that what has been written in their Law might be fulfilled: "They hated me for no reason.'