Lamentations 3:52 Meaning and Explanation
“Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.”
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What Does Lamentations 3:52 Mean?
The sufferer recounts how his enemies 'chased me sore, like a bird.' A hunted bird is a picture of frantic, exhausting flight, pursued from place to place with no rest. The hunt was relentless, driving him to the edge of his strength. And it was 'without cause' — undeserved, unprovoked hostility.
'Without cause' is a phrase that resonates through Scripture, used of the righteous who are hated and hunted by enemies they have not wronged. The Psalms cry it; and the Lord himself applied such words to his own undeserved hatred, that they hated him without a cause. The sufferer of Lamentations, hunted like a bird for no fault, stands among all the innocent persecuted, and points ahead to the One persecuted most unjustly of all.
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What does Lamentations 3:52 mean?
His enemies hunted him relentlessly like a bird, though he had given them no cause.