Lamentations 3:52 (DRB)

Passage

Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.

Lamentations 3:51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a bird, without cause.

Lamentations 3:53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have laid a stone over me.

Lamentations 3:54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am cut off.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "sade", "enemies", "chased", "caught", "like", "bird", "without", and "cause". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "sade" and "enemies", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 51's "Ain My eye hath wasted my soul..." into verse 53's "Sade My life is fallen into the...", so "sade" and "enemies" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "sade" and "enemies" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.