Lamentations 3:14
I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their [jeering] song all the day.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He hath caused to enter into my reins the children of his quiver.
15He hath sated me with bitter things, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2(3:34) And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them [to build]? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt?
Job 30:9But now I am become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.
Psalms 35:15But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11(69:12) And when I made sackcloth my garment, I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 123:3Be gracious unto us, O Lord! be gracious unto us; for we are overburdened with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7Thou didst persuade me, O Lord, and I was persuaded; thou laidst thy [hand] strongly on me, and didst prevail: I am laughed at all the time, 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 →