New Living Translation
Lamentations 3:14
14My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
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 has drawn his bow and made me the target for his arrows. 13He shot his arrows deep into my heart. My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs. 15He has filled me with bitterness and given me a bitter cup of sorrow to drink. 16He has made me chew on gravel. He has rolled me in the dust.
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 them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.
- Nehemiah 4:2saying in front of his friends and the Samarian army officers, “What does this bunch of poor, feeble Jews think they’re doing? Do they think they can build the wall in a single day by just offering a few sacrifices? Do they actually think they can make something of stones from a rubbish heap—and charred ones at that?”
- Job 30:1“But now I am mocked by people younger than I, by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
- Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all!
- Psalms 35:15But they are glad now that I am in trouble; they gleefully join together against me. I am attacked by people I don’t even know; they slander me constantly.
- Psalms 44:13You let our neighbors mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 69:11When I dress in burlap to show sorrow, they make fun of me.
- Psalms 79:4We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 123:3Have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy, for we have had our fill of contempt.
- Psalms 137:3For our captors demanded a song from us. Our tormentors insisted on a joyful hymn: “Sing us one of those songs of Jerusalem!”
- Jeremiah 20:7O Lord, you misled me, and I allowed myself to be misled. You are stronger than I am, and you overpowered me. Now I am mocked every day; everyone laughs at me.
- Jeremiah 48:27Did you not ridicule the people of Israel? Were they caught in the company of thieves that you should despise them as you do?
- Matthew 27:39The people passing by shouted abuse, shaking their heads in mockery.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9Instead, I sometimes think God has put us apostles on display, like prisoners of war at the end of a victor’s parade, condemned to die. We have become a spectacle to the entire world—to people and angels alike.
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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