Lamentations 3:14
I have been a derision to all my people, || Their song all the day.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He has caused to enter into my reins || The sons of His quiver.
15He has filled me with bitter things, || He has filled me [with] wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2and says before his brothers and the force of Samaria, indeed, he says, “What [are] the weak Jews doing? Are they left to themselves? Do they sacrifice? Do they complete in a day? Do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish—and they are burned?”
Job 30:9And now, I have been their song, || And I am to them for a byword.
Psalms 35:15And they have rejoiced in my halting, || And have been gathered together, || The strikers were gathered against me, || And I have not known, || They have torn, and they have not ceased;
Psalms 69:11And I make my clothing sackcloth, || And I am for an allegory to them.
Psalms 123:3Favor us, O YHWH, favor us, || For we have been greatly filled with contempt,
Jeremiah 20:7You have persuaded me, O YHWH, and I am persuaded; You have hardened me, and prevail, || I have been for a laughter all the day, || Everyone is mocking 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 →