Lamentations Chapter 3 verse 52 Holy Bible
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
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They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
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They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
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Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
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They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
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Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 52-66. - THE SPEAKER'S SUFFERINGS; AN EARNESTLY BELIEVING PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE. He speaks as a representative of the nation; if we should not rather say that the nation itself, personified, is the speaker. In the first triad some have supposed a reference to the persecution suffered by Jeremiah at the hands of his countrymen. The "dungeon," or rather "pit," will in this case be the "dungeon" ("pit") mentioned in Jeremiah 38:6. But a "pit" is a figure in the psalms for destruction (Psalm 40:2; Psalm 69:15), and there is nothing recorded in Jeremiah as to the" princes" haying cast stones at Jeremiah, or rolled a stone on to the top of the "pit." Besides, the "pit" into which the prophet was cast had "no water, but mire." Verse 52. - Mine enemies... without cause. These words ought to be connected, as in the Hebrew.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(52) Without cause . . .--The words connect themselves in the Hebrew with "mine enemies" (comp. Psalm 35:7; Psalm 35:19; Psalm 69:4), and it has been inferred from this that Jeremiah speaks not of the Chaldeans as enemies of his nation, but of those who were individually his persecutors. The hypothesis receives some confirmation from the apparent reference in the "dungeon" and the "waters" to the narrative of Jeremiah 38. It has been urged, on the other hand, that those expressions may be figurative here, as they are in Psalm 42:7; Psalm 88:7; Psalm 124:4. . . .
