Lamentations 3:52

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

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  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
  • Ps 35:19 : 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.
  • Ps 69:4 : 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
  • Ps 109:3 : 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
  • Ps 119:161 : 161 SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
  • Jer 37:15-16 : 15 Wherefore the princes were wroth with emiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. 16 When emiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and emiah had remained there many days;
  • Jer 37:18 : 18 Moreover emiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
  • Jer 38:4-6 : 4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you. 6 Then took they emiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down emiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so emiah sunk in the mire.
  • John 15:25 : 25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
  • 1 Sam 24:10-15 : 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. 11 Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it. 12 The LORD judge between me and thee, and the LORD avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 13 As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee. 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
  • 1 Sam 25:28-29 : 28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-20 : 18 And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand? 19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods. 20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, A alm of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

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

  • 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

  • 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

  • 8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.

  • 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.

  • 19 But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.

  • 19 Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,

  • 11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they id wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

  • 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 3 For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

  • 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 56:5-6
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    5 Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my ste, when they wait for my soul.

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9 He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • Ps 7:4-5
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    4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

    5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desote.

  • 2 Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.

  • 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

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    7 Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.

  • 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

  • 21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are gd that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

  • Jer 12:8-9
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    8 Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

    9 Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

  • 13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • 11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

  • 10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

  • 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

  • 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

  • 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

  • 2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

  • 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desote and faint all the day.

  • 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

  • 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • 37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

  • 5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

  • 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

  • 6 They have prepared a net for my ste; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.

  • 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • 3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.

  • 4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

  • 161 SCHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.