Lamentations 3:14
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.
15He has made my life nothing but pain, he has given me the bitter root in full measure.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
Job 30:9And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Psalms 35:15But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.
Psalms 69:11\69:10\My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.
Jeremiah 20:7O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of 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 →