Ratapan 3:52

צ (Tsade)

3:52 For no good reason ¹  my enemies

hunted me down ²  like a bird.

Ratapan 3:66

3:66 Pursue them ³  in anger and eradicate them

from under the Lord’s heaven.

[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.

[3:66]  ³ tn Heb “pursue.” The accusative direct object is implied in the Hebrew, and inserted in the translation.