Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

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 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. 53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

Cross References

Psalm 35:7

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Psalm 35:19

Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.

1 Samuel 24:10-15

Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed.

1 Samuel 25:28-29

I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.

1 Samuel 26:18-20

And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

Psalm 11:1

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

Psalm 69:4

They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

Psalm 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Psalm 119:161

SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.

Jeremiah 37:15-16

Wherefore the princes were wroth 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 unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

Jeremiah 38:4-6

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

John 15:25

But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

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