Lamentations 3:52 Cross References - Leeser

⁵² Those who are my enemies, without a cause, have chased me about like a bird.

¹⁰ Behold, this day thy eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee today into my hand in the cave, and some one said that I should kill thee: but my soul felt compassion for thee: and I said, I will not stretch forth my hand against my Lord; because he is the anointed of the Lord. ¹¹ And now, my father, see, yea, see the corner of thy robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the corner of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and that I have not sinned against thee: yet thou liest in wait for my soul to take it. ¹² May the Lord judge between me and thee, and may the Lord avenge me on thee; but my hand shall not be against thee. ¹³ As saith the proverb of the ancients, From the wicked proceedeth wickedness; but my hand shall not be against thee. ¹⁴ After whom is the king of Israel gone out? after whom art thou pursuing? after a dead dog, after a single flea. ¹⁵ May the Lord therefore be judge, and decide between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and obtain me justice out of thy hand.

²⁸ Pardon, I pray thee, the trespass of thy hand-maid; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house; because the battles of the Lord doth my lord fight, and evil will not be found in thee all thy days. ²⁹ And though a man is risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: yet will the soul of my Lord be bound in the bond of life with the Lord thy God; and the soul of thy enemies will he hurl away, as out of the middle of the sling.

¹⁸ And he said, Why is this that my lord doth pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand? ¹⁹ And now, I pray thee, let my Lord the king hear the words of his servant! If the Lord have stirred thee up against me, then may he accept the savor of an offering; but if they be the children of men, then be they cursed before the Lord; because they have driven me out this day so that I cannot attach myself on the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods. ²⁰ Now, therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth far from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel is come out to seek a single flea, as one doth usually pursue a partridge on the mountains.

¹ To the chief musician, by David. In the Lord have I put my trust: how can ye say to my soul, Flee to your mountain as a bird?

⁷ For without cause have they hidden for me their net in a pit, without cause have they dug pit-falls against my life.

¹⁹ Let not rejoice over me those that are my enemies wrongfully: nor let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.

^{4 (69:5)} More than the hairs of my head are those that hate me without a cause; numerous are those that would destroy me, that are my enemies wrongfully: what I have not robbed shall I now restore.

³ Also with words of hatred have they encompassed me, and they fight against me without a cause.

¹⁶¹ SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but of thy word standeth my heart in dread.

¹⁵ Thereupon were the princes wroth with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for that had they made into a prison-house. ¹⁶ When Jeremiah had been placed in the dungeon, within the traders’ shops, where Jeremiah remained many days:

¹⁸ And Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I sinned against thee, and against thy servants, and against this people, that ye have put me into the prison-house?

⁴ Thereupon said the princes unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death; for the cause that he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that are yet left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words unto them; for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but their hurt. ⁵ Then said king Zedekiah, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not able to do any thing against you. ⁶ Then did they take Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malkiyahu the son of the king, that was in the court of the prison: and they let Jeremiah down with cords; but in the pit there was no water, but mire; so that Jeremiah sunk into the mire.