Lamentations 3:52

צ (Tsade)

3:52 For no good reason ¹  my enemies

hunted me down ²  like a bird.

Lamentations 3:62

3:62 My assailants revile and conspire ³ 

against me all day long.

[3:52]  ¹ tn Heb “without cause.”

[3:52]  ² tn The construction צוֹד צָדוּנִי (tsod tsaduni, “they have hunted me down”) is emphatic: Qal infinitive absolute of the same root of Qal perfect 3rd person common plural + 1st person common singular suffix.

[3:62]  ³ tn Heb “the lips of my assailants and their thoughts.”