Lamentations 3:14
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
In Context
13He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
15He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burnt?”
Job 30:9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Psalms 35:15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn’t know it. They tore at me, and didn’t cease.
Psalms 69:11When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7LORD, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. 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 →