New King James Version
Lamentations 3:14
14I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day.
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 Living Translation (NLT)My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
Context of Lamentations 3:14
12He has bent His bow And set me up as a target for the arrow. 13He has caused the arrows of His quiver To pierce my loins. I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day. 15He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drink wormwood. 16He has also broken my teeth with gravel, And covered me with ashes.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:14 word by word
הָיִ֤יתִי שְּׂחֹק֙ לְכָל־עַמִּ֔י נְגִינָתָ֖ם כָּל־הַיּֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:14
- Lamentations 3:63Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.
- Nehemiah 4:2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish—stones that are burned?”
- Job 30:1“But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
- Psalms 35:15But in my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease;
- Psalms 44:13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
- Psalms 69:11I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them.
- Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us! For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
- Psalms 137:3For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song, And those who plundered us requested mirth, Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
- Jeremiah 20:7O Lord, You induced me, and I was persuaded; You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I am in derision daily; Everyone mocks me.
- Jeremiah 48:27For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him, You shake your head in scorn.
- Matthew 27:39And those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and 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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