Lamentations 3:14
12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
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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
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
Read in contextLamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Read in contextPsalms 22:6–7
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Read in contextNehemiah 4:2–4
And he spake 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?
Read in contextPsalms 123:3–4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Read in contextPsalms 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Read in contextJob 30:1–9
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:9–13
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
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