Lamentations 3:14
12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.
13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.
16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- KJV
- I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- WEB
- I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
- ASV
- I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
- DARBY
- I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
- BLB
- I have become a laughingstock to all my people, their taunt all the day.
- ÅB
- Jeg er blitt til latter for alt mitt folk, til en spottesang for dem hele dagen.
- OTB
- Jeg har blitt til latter for hele mitt folk; de håner meg i sang hele dagen.
- B1930
- Jeg er blitt til latter for alt mitt folk, til en spottesang for dem hele dagen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 20:7
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
Read in contextLamentations 3:63
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
Read in contextPsalms 22:6–7
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
Read in contextNehemiah 4:2–4
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
Read in contextPsalms 123:3–4
Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
Read in contextPsalms 44:13
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
Read in contextJob 30:1–9
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:9–13
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
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