Lamentations 3:52 Cross References - Thomson

⁵² With eagerness all mine enemies have hunted me like an ostrich;

¹⁰ Behold this very day thine eyes have seen, how the Lord delivered thee to-day into my hands, in the cave, and I would not kill thee, but spared thee, and said, I will not lift up my hand against my lord, because he is the Lord's anointed. ¹¹ Now behold here is the skirt of thy cloak in my hand. I cut off the skirt, but did not kill thee. Know, therefore, and see now that there is no wickedness in my hand; no impiety or disloyalty; nor have I sinned against thee, though thou huntest my life to take it. ¹² The Lord judge between me and thee. And the Lord avenge thee on thyself. Let not my hand be upon thee. ¹³ According to the old proverb, From the wicked will proceed transgression. So let not my hand be upon thee. ¹⁴ And now, after whom art thou coming out, king of Israel? And after whom art thou in pursuit? After a dead dog? Or after a flea? ¹⁵ The Lord be a judge, and a discerner of right, between me and thee. May the Lord see, and judge my cause, and deliver me out of thy hand!

²⁸ Forgive, I beseech thee, what is amiss in thy servant. Because the Lord will assuredly make for my lord a faithful house; because the Lord will fight the battle of my lord, therefore there must never be iniquity found in thee. ²⁹ Though a man may rise up to pursue thee, and seek thy life, yet will the life of my lord be bound up in the bundle of life by the Lord God; but the life of thy enemies thou shalt sling out with a sling.

¹⁸ Moreover he said, Why doth my lord pursue after his servant? For wherein have I offended, or what iniquity is there found in me? ¹⁹ Now therefore let my lord the king hear the word of his servant. If God stirreth thee up against me, let thy sacrifice be fragrant: bat if the sons of men; cursed be they before the Lord; for they have now driven me out from abiding securely in the inheritance of the Lord, saying, Go, serve other gods. ²⁰ Now therefore, let not my blood fall on the land before the face of the Lord, because the king of Israel is come out to seek my life, as the night hawk pursueth on the mountains.

¹ For the conclusion. A Psalm by David. In the Lord I have placed my confidence, how say ye to my soul, "away to the mountains as an ostrich.

⁷ Seeing they have without cause, hid for me their destructive snare; have, without reason, reproached my soul;

¹⁹ Over me, let not these, my bitter enemies, vainly rejoice; who hate me without cause, and give assent with their eyes.

⁴ They who hate me without cause are more than the hairs of my head. Mine enemies who persecute me wrongfully are become strong. I have made compensation on the spot for what I did not take by violence.

³ With words of hatred they encompassed me about; and fought against me without provocation.

¹⁶¹ SCHIN. Chiefs persecuted me undeservedly: but my heart stood in awe of thy words.

¹⁵ And the chiefs were enraged at Jeremias and smote him and committed him to the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that a prison. ¹⁶ And when Jeremias had gone into the lowest apartment, even into the Chereth, and had been there many days, Sedekias sent for him.

¹⁸ Then Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I offended thee and thy servants and this people, that thou hast committed me to prison?

⁴ "they said to the king, Let this man, we pray thee, be put out of the way; for he weakeneth the hands of the warriors who are left in the city and the hands of all the people by making such speeches to them. For this man prophesieth not peace to the people, but only evils. ⁵ And the king said, Behold he is in your hands. For the king could not withstand them. ⁶ So they threw him into the dungeon of Melchias the king's son which was in the court of the prison. And when they had lowered him down into the dungeon, there was no water in the dungeon, but there was mire; and he was in the mire.

²⁵ But by this is fulfilled the word which is written in their law, They hated me without cause.