Lamentations 3:14
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock 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 →