Lamentations 3:52 Cross References - Bishops

⁵² Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause

¹⁰ Behold, this day thyne eyes haue seene howe that the Lord hath deliuered thee this day into myne hande in the caue: And some bad me kill thee, but I had compassion on thee, and sayd: I will not lay myne handes on my maister, for he is the Lordes annoynted ¹¹ And moreouer my father, beholde and see yet the lap of thy garment in my hand: Inasmuch as I killed thee not when I cut of the lap of thy garment, vnderstand therfore, & see that there is neither euyll nor wickednesse in me, and that I haue not sinned against thee: And yet thou huntest after my soule to take it ¹² The Lorde be iudge betweene thee and me, & the Lorde auenge me of thee: but myne hande be not vpon thee ¹³ According as the olde prouerbe sayeth, wickednesse proceedeth fro the wicked: But myne hande be not vpon thee ¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel come out? After whom doest thou pursue? After a dead dog, and after a flea ¹⁵ The Lorde therfore be iudge, & iudge betweene thee & me, and see & pleade my cause, & auenge me out of thyne hande

²⁸ I praye thee forgeue the trespasse of thyne handmayd: for the Lorde will make my lord a sure house, because my lorde fighteth the battailes of the Lord, and there could none euill be found in thee in all thy dayes ²⁹ And yet a man hath rysen to persecute thee, and to seeke thy soule: but the soule of my Lorde shall be bound in the bundel of the lyuyng with the Lord thy God, and the soules of thy enemies shall God cast out, euen as out of the middle of a slyng

¹⁸ And he sayde: Wherefore doth my lorde thus persecute his seruaunt? for what haue I done? or what euyll is in myne hand ¹⁹ Nowe therefore I praye thee, let my lorde the king heare the wordes of his seruaunt: If the Lorde haue stirred thee vp against me, let him smell the sauour of a sacrifice: But and if they be the children of men, cursed are they before the Lorde, for they haue cast me out this day from abidyng in the inheritaunce of the Lorde, saying: Go, serue other goddes ²⁰ Now therefore let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lorde: For the king of Israel is come out to seeke a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountaynes

¹ In God I put my trust: howe say ye then to my soule, that she shoulde flee as a byrde from your hyll

⁷ For without a cause they haue priuily layde for me a pit [full] of their nettes: without a cause they haue made a digyng vnto my soule

¹⁹ O let not my deceiptfull enemies triumph ouer me: let them not winke with an eye, that hate me without a cause

⁴ They that hate me without a cause are mo then the heeres of my head: they that are myne enemies and woulde destroy me giltlesse are mightie, I payde them the thynges that I neuer toke

³ And they haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause

¹⁶¹ (119:1) Princes haue persecuted me without a cause: but my heart hath stoode in awe of thy wordes

¹⁵ Wherfore the princes were angry with Ieremie, & smote hym, and layde hym in prison in the house of Ionathan the scribe: for they had made that house the prison ¹⁶ Thus was Hieremie put into a dungeon and prison, and so lay there a long tyme

¹⁸ Moreouer, Ieremie sayde vnto king Zedekia, What haue I offended agaynst thee, agaynst thy seruauntes, or agaynst this people, that ye haue put me in prison

⁴ Then saide the princes vnto the kyng, Sir, we beseche you let this man be put to death: for thus he discourageth the handes of the souldiours that be in this citie, and the handes of all the people, when he speaketh such wordes vnto them: This man laboureth not for peace of the people, but mischiefe ⁵ Zedekia the kyng aunswered, and sayde, Lo, he is in your handes: for the kyng may denie you nothyng ⁶ Then toke they Ieremie and cast him into the dungeon of Melchiah the sonne of Amelech, that dwelt in the fore entrie of the prison, and they let downe Ieremie with coardes into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire: So Ieremie stack fast in the mire

²⁵ But [this commeth to passe,] that the worde myght be fulfylled, that is written in their lawe: They hated me without a cause