Lamentations 3:14
Now everyone laughs at me, singing songs that mock me all day long.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He shot me in my kidneys with his arrows.
15He has filled me with bitterness; he has filled me up with bitter wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2in front of his colleagues and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these useless Jews trying to achieve? Do they think they can rebuild the wall? Are they going to offer sacrifices? Are they going to finish it in a day? Do they think they can re-use stones from piles of rubble and dirt, especially since they've all been burned?”
Job 30:9Yet now they mock me in their songs; I have become a joke to them!
Psalms 35:15But when I was in trouble, they gathered around and laughed at me. Even strangers I don't know attacked me, constantly tearing me apart.
Psalms 69:11I mourned in sackcloth, but they laughed at me.
Psalms 123:3Please have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy. We've had enough of people's contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7You fooled me, Lord, and I let myself be fooled! You're stronger than me—you've won! I've become a joke people laugh at all day long. Everyone is mocking 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 →