Christian Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:14
14I am a laughingstock to all my people, mocked by their songs 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 strung his bow and set me as the target for his arrow. 13He pierced my kidneys with shafts from his quiver. I am a laughingstock to all my people, mocked by their songs all day long. 15He filled me with bitterness, satiated me with wormwood. 16He ground my teeth with gravel and made me cower in the dust.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:14 word by word
הָיִ֤יתִי שְּׂחֹק֙ לְכָל־עַמִּ֔י נְגִינָתָ֖ם כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:14
- Lamentations 3:63When they sit and when they rise, look, I am mocked by their songs.
- Nehemiah 4:2before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- Job 30:1But 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 mankind and despised by people.
- Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee; they gathered against me. Assailants I did not know tore at me and did not stop.
- Psalms 44:13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 69:11I wore sackcloth as my clothing, and I was a joke to them.
- Psalms 79:4We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, Lord, show us favor, for we’ve had more than enough contempt.
- Psalms 137:3for our captors there asked us for songs, and our tormentors, for rejoicing: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
- Jeremiah 20:7You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived. You seized me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all the time; everyone ridicules me.
- Jeremiah 48:27Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”
- Matthew 27:39Those who passed by were yelling insults at him, shaking their heads
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
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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