Lamentations 3:14
He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his quiver.
15He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath inebriated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And said before his brethren, and the multitude of the Samaritans: What are the silly Jews doing? Will the Gentiles let them alone? will they sacrifice and make an end in a day? are they able to raise stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, which are burnt?
Job 30:9Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
Psalms 35:15But they rejoiced against me, and came together : scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.
Psalms 69:11And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me.
Psalms 123:3Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
Jeremiah 20:7Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughing-stock all the day, all scoff at 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 →