Parallel Verses
NET Bible
(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down 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.
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.
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 my eyes see grieves me -- all the suffering of the daughters in my city. 52 (Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird. 53 They shut me up in a pit and threw stones at me.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
I did not harm them, but they hid a net to catch me and dug a pit to trap me.
Psalm 35:19
Do not let those who are my enemies for no reason gloat over me! Do not let those who hate me without cause carry out their wicked schemes!
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Today your own eyes see how the Lord delivered you -- this very day -- into my hands in the cave. Some told me to kill you, but I had pity on you and said, 'I will not extend my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord's chosen one.'
1 Samuel 25:28-29
Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!
1 Samuel 26:18-20
He went on to say, "Why is my lord chasing his servant? What have I done? What wrong have I done?
Psalm 11:1
For the music director; by David. In the Lord I have taken shelter. How can you say to me, "Flee to a mountain like a bird!
Psalm 69:4
Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs of my head. Those who want to destroy me, my enemies for no reason, outnumber me. They make me repay what I did not steal!
Psalm 109:3
They surround me and say hateful things; they attack me for no reason.
Psalm 119:161
/ (Sin/Shin) Rulers pursue me for no reason, yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
The officials were very angry at Jeremiah. They had him flogged and put in prison in the house of Jonathan, the royal secretary, which they had converted into a place for confining prisoners.
Jeremiah 37:18
Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
So these officials said to the king, "This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying. This man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them."
John 15:25
Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, 'They hated me without reason.'