Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird.
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.
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 inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city. 52 My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird. 53 {They have silenced me in a pit}, they have thrown a stone at me.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug [it] for my life.
Psalm 35:19
Let not those who [are] wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me. [Nor let] those who hate me without cause wink [the] eye.
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But {I took pity} on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he [is] Yahweh's anointed one.'
1 Samuel 25:28-29
Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting house for my lord, because my lord [is] fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you {as long as you live}.
1 Samuel 26:18-20
Then he said, "Why [is] my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil [is] in my hand?
Psalm 11:1
In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?
Psalm 69:4
More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.
Psalm 109:3
They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause.
Psalm 119:161
Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles because of your word.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him [in] {prison}, [in] the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the {prison}.
Jeremiah 37:18
Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What did I do wrong to you, or to your servants, or to this people, that you have put me in {prison}?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, {because} he [is] making slack the hands of {the soldiers} who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man [is] not seeking for welfare to this people, {but only} for harm."
John 15:25
But [this happened] so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.'