Lamentations 3:14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rub
Job 30:9And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The wretches gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not. They tore me, and ceased not.
Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, thou have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. Thou are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughing-stock all the day; everyone mocks me.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:2-21
The Prophet's Personal Affliction. ( b. c. 588.) 1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath… Read the whole commentary →