Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Updated King James 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 the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
15He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Job 30:9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Psalms 35:15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the outcasts gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 123:3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one 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 →