Lamentations 3:14
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2(3-34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'
Job 30:9And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
Psalms 35:15But when I halt they rejoice, and gather themselves together; the abjects gather themselves together against me, and those whom I know not; they tear me, and cease not;
Psalms 69:11(69-12) I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O LORD, be gracious unto us; for we are full sated with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed, Thou hast overcome me, and hast prevailed; I am become a laughing-stock all the 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 →