Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:14
14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Lamentations 3:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- New International Version (NIV)I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day.
Context of Lamentations 3:14
12He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow. 13He pierced my kidneys with His arrows. I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long. 15He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood. 16He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:14 word by word
הָיִ֤יתִי שְּׂחֹק֙ לְכָל־עַמִּ֔י נְגִינָתָ֖ם כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:14
- Lamentations 3:63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
- Nehemiah 4:2before 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?”
- Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
- Psalms 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 69:11I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
- Psalms 137:3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
- 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.
- 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.
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For 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.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:14
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10-18Verses 10-18 Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape. Lamentations 3:11 The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.” Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah. Lamentations 3:12 This new…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-24The author speaks of the suffering of Judah and Jerusalem as his own.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-66La 3:1-66. Jeremiah proposes his own experience under afflictions, as an example as to how the Jews should behave under theirs, so as to have hope of a restoration; hence the change from singular to plural (La 3:22, 40-47). The stanzas consist of three lines, each of which begins with the same Hebrew letter. Aleph. 1-3. seen affliction--his own in the dungeon of Malchiah (Jr 38:6); that of his countrymen also in the siege. Both were types of that of…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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