Lamentations 3:14
HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
15HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And he said, before his brothers and a crowd of the Samaritans: “What are the foolish Jews doing? Can it be that the Gentiles will allow them? Will they sacrifice and finish in one day? Do they have the ability to make stones out of piles of dust that have been burned up?”
Job 30:9Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
Psalms 123:3perhaps they would have swallowed us alive. When their fury was enraged against us,
Jeremiah 20:7“You have led me away, O Lord, and I have been led away. You have been stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a derision all day long; 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 →