"Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause."
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Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed.
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
They who are against me without cause have gone hard after me as if I was a bird;
They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird.
Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
My enemies chased me fiercely, like a bird without cause.
They have chased me sore like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
Hunted me sore as a bird have my enemies without cause.