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Monday, July 28th, 2025
the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Lamentations 3:52

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hunting;   Quotations and Allusions;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bird;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For no reason, my enemieshunted me like a bird.
Hebrew Names Version
They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
English Standard Version
"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
New American Standard Bible
My enemies without reason Hunted me down like a bird;
New Century Version
Those who are my enemies for no reason hunted me like a bird.
Amplified Bible
Without cause my enemies Hunted me down like a bird;
World English Bible
They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Mine enemies chased me sore like a birde, without cause.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird;
Legacy Standard Bible
My enemies without causeHunted me down like a bird;
Berean Standard Bible
Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
Contemporary English Version
No one had reason to hate me, but I was hunted down like a bird.
Complete Jewish Bible
Those who are my enemies for no reason hunted me down like a bird.
Darby Translation
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
Easy-to-Read Version
For no reason, my enemies hunted me like a bird.
George Lamsa Translation
My enemies have hunted me like a bird, without cause.
Good News Translation
"I was trapped like a bird by enemies who had no cause to hate me.
Lexham English Bible
My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird.
Literal Translation
My enemies have hunted me like a bird without cause.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Myne enemies hunted me out sharpely like a byrde, yee and that with out a cause.
American Standard Version
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
Bible in Basic English
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.
King James Version (1611)
Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird, without cause.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
English Revised Version
They have chased me sore like a bird, that are mine enemies without cause.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sade. Myn enemyes token me with out cause, bi huntyng as a brid.
Update Bible Version
They have chased me intensely like a bird, those that are my enemies without cause.
Webster's Bible Translation
My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
New English Translation

צ (Tsade)

For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.
New King James Version
My enemies without cause Hunted me down like a bird.
New Living Translation
My enemies, whom I have never harmed, hunted me down like a bird.
New Life Bible
I have been hunted like a bird by those who hate me for no reason.
New Revised Standard
Those who were my enemies without cause have hunted me like a bird;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They, have laid snares, for me as a bird, who are mine enemies without cause:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.
Revised Standard Version
"I have been hunted like a bird by those who were my enemies without cause;
Young's Literal Translation
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
THE MESSAGE
"Enemies with no reason to be enemies hunted me down like a bird. They threw me into a pit, then pelted me with stones. Then the rains came and filled the pit. The water rose over my head. I said, ‘It's all over.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

chased: Jeremiah 37:15, Jeremiah 37:16, Jeremiah 38:4-6

without: 1 Samuel 24:10-15, 1 Samuel 25:28, 1 Samuel 25:29, 1 Samuel 26:18-20, Psalms 35:7, Psalms 35:19, Psalms 69:4, Psalms 109:3, Psalms 119:161, Jeremiah 37:18, John 15:25

Reciprocal: Genesis 37:24 - the pit Jeremiah 38:6 - And in Lamentations 4:18 - hunt Daniel 3:23 - fell Matthew 5:22 - without Hebrews 11:36 - bonds

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird,.... That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of the Jews he represents; for here and in the following verses he speaks not only of himself, but of them; who, when they fled out of the city, were chased and pursued by the Chaldeans like a bird, till they were taken; see Jeremiah 52:7;

without cause; which may be connected with the word "enemies", so the Targum; who were so without cause; they had done them no injury, to make them their enemies; and without reason pursued and chased them in the manner they did.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “They who without cause are mine enemies have hunted me sore like a bird.” Probably the prophet is speaking of his personal sorrows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 52. Mine enemies chased me — From this to the end of the chapter the prophet speaks of his own personal sufferings, and especially of those which he endured in the dungeon. See Jeremiah 38:6, &c.


 
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