Lamentations 3:14
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
15He hath sated me with bitterness, he hath made me drunk with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?
Job 30:9And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
Psalms 35:15But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh 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 →