The Prophet’s Afflictions
Lamentations 3:14
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- I have been a derision to all my people, || Their song all the day.
- YLT
- I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
- DBY
- I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
- DRC
- He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
- GNV
- I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
- JPS
- I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
- LXXE
- I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- הָיִ֤יתִי שְּׂחֹק֙ לְכָל־עַמִּ֔י נְגִינָתָ֖ם כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃We read the punctuation in L differently from BHQ.
- LXX-Br
- Ἐγενήθην γέλως παντὶ λαῷ μου, ψαλμὸς αὐτῶν ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
PoetryLaughing-StockAlphabetLaughterDespondencyScorning and MockingMurmuringPoetry, HebrewLamentations, Book ofJudgments
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 20:7You 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.
- Lamentations 3:63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
- Psalms 22:6–7But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
- Psalms 69:11–12I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them. Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
- Psalms 123:3–4Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt. We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.
- Psalms 137:3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
- Job 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. What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them? Gaunt from poverty and…
- Jeremiah 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Nehemiah 4:2–4before 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…
- Psalms 35:15–16But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing. Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.
- Matthew 27:39–44And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself! If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross!”…
- Psalms 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9–13For 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. We are fools for…
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