צ (Tsade) For no good reason my enemies hunted me down like a bird.

If I lift myself up, you hunt me as a fierce lion, and again you display your power against me.

“Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions,

Therefore, take your weapons – your quiver and your bow – and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.

A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

צ (Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

and say ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Woe to those who sew bands on all their wrists and make headbands for heads of every size to entrap people’s lives! Will you entrap my people’s lives, yet preserve your own lives?

“‘Therefore, this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am against your wristbands with which you entrap people’s lives like birds. I will tear them from your arms and will release the people’s lives, which you hunt like birds.

Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Isaac began to shake violently and asked, “Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!”

“‘Any man from the Israelites or from the foreigners who reside in their midst who hunts a wild animal or a bird that may be eaten must pour out its blood and cover it with soil,

But for now I, the Lord, say: “I will send many enemies who will catch these people like fishermen. After that I will send others who will hunt them out like hunters from all the mountains, all the hills, and the crevices in the rocks.