Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was 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;
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:52
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town. 52 They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird; 53 They have put an end to my life in the prison, stoning me with stones.
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Cross References
Psalm 35:7
For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.
Psalm 35:19
Do not let my haters be glad over me falsely; let not those who are against me without cause make sport of me.
1 Samuel 24:10-15
Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.
1 Samuel 25:28-29
And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.
1 Samuel 26:18-20
And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?
Psalm 11:1
In the Lord put I my faith; how will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain?
Psalm 69:4
Those who have hate for me without cause are greater in number than the hairs of my head; those who are against me, falsely desiring my destruction, are very strong; I gave back what I had not taken away.
Psalm 109:3
Words of hate are round about me; they have made war against me without cause.
Psalm 119:161
Rulers have been cruel to me without cause; but I have the fear of your word in my heart.
Jeremiah 37:15-16
And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Jeremiah 37:18
Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?
Jeremiah 38:4-6
Then the rulers said to the king, Let this man be put to death, because he is putting fear into the hearts of the men of war who are still in the town, and into the hearts of the people, by saying such things to them: this man is not working for the well-being of the people, but for their damage.
John 15:25
This comes about so that the writing in their law may be made true, Their hate for me was without cause.