Lamentations 3:52

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 52 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Context

v.51Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

v.52This passage

v.53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 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.

  • Psalms 109:3

    They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.

  • Psalms 119:161

    Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.

  • 1 Samuel 25:28

    Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.

  • Psalms 69:4

    They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I took not away I have to restore.

  • Jeremiah 37:18

    Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, Wherein have I sinned against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?