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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 3, Verse 52

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51
Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
King James Version
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
American Standard Version
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.
New English Translation
צ(Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.
World English Bible
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54
Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.
55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57
Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60
Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;
62
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.