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Lamentations 3:52

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ץ (Tsade)

3:52For no good reason109 my enemies

hunted me down110 like a bird.

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Footnotes

  1. 109 Heb “without cause.”
  2. 110 The construction צוֹד צָדוּנִי (tsod tsaduni, “they have hunted me down”) is emphatic: Qal infinitive absolute of the same root of Qal perfect 3rd person common plural + 1st person common singular suffix.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“I have been hunted like a bird

by those who were my enemies without cause;

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Those who were my enemies without cause

hunted me like a bird.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For no reason, my enemies

hunted me like a bird.

NLTNew Living Translation

My enemies, whom I have never harmed,

hunted me down like a bird.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

My enemies hunt me without cause,

like a bird.

KJV 1900King James Version

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