Verse 52

My enemies hunted me like a bird, without cause.

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  • Ps 35:7 : 7 For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.
  • Ps 35:19 : 19 Let not my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without cause wink with the eye.
  • Ps 69:4 : 4 Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; those who would destroy me, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty; then I restored what I did not take away.
  • Ps 109:3 : 3 They surrounded me with words of hatred and fought against me without cause.
  • Ps 119:161 : 161 SCHIN. Princes persecute me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your word.
  • Jer 37:15-16 : 15 Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made that the prison. 16 When Jeremiah had entered into the dungeon and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days,
  • Jer 37:18 : 18 Moreover Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, 'What have I offended against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?'
  • Jer 38:4-6 : 4 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beg you, let this man be put to death; for he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them; for this man does not seek the welfare of this people, but the harm. 5 Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not anyone who can do anything against you. 6 Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the prison; and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sank in the mire.
  • John 15:25 : 25 But this happens so that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
  • 1 Sam 24:10-15 : 10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some urged me to kill you: but my eye spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is the LORD'S anointed. 11 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the edge of your robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the edge of your robe and killed you not, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you; yet you hunt my soul to take it. 12 The LORD judge between me and you, and the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be upon you. 13 As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you. 14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea. 15 The LORD therefore be judge and judge between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
  • 1 Sam 25:28-29 : 28 Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant, for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of the LORD, and evil has not been found in you all your days. 29 Yet a man has risen to pursue you and seek your life; but the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the lives of your enemies, He shall sling out, as from the pocket of a sling.
  • 1 Sam 26:18-20 : 18 And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is in my hand? 19 Now, therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.' 20 Now, therefore, do not let my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains."
  • Ps 11:1 : 1 In the LORD I put my trust; how can you say to my soul, 'Flee as a bird to your mountain'?