Lamentations 3:52

52 SADE venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis

Lamentations 3:52 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:52

Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird
That is weak and helpless, fearful and timorous; that flees from place to place when pursued; so it was with the prophet, or rather with the people of the Jews he represents; for here and in the following verses he speaks not only of himself, but of them; who, when they fled out of the city, were chased and pursued by the Chaldeans like a bird, till they were taken; see ( Jeremiah 52:7-9 ) ; without cause;
which may be connected with the word "enemies", so the Targum; who were so without cause; they had done them no injury, to make them their enemies; and without reason pursued and chased them in the manner they did.

Lamentations 3:52 In-Context

50 AIN donec respiceret et videret Dominus de caelis

51 AIN oculus meus depraedatus est animam meam in cunctis filiabus urbis meae

52 SADE venatione ceperunt me quasi avem inimici mei gratis

53 SADE lapsa est in lacu vita mea et posuerunt lapidem super me

54 SADE inundaverunt aquae super caput meum dixi perii