Tree of Life Version
Lamentations 3:14
14I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their 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 made me the target for His arrow. 13He shot into my kidneys arrows from His quiver. I have become a laughing stock to all my people, their song all day long. 15He has filled me with bitterness and made me drink wormwood. 16He broke my teeth with gravel. He made me wallow in 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 them, sitting or standing, they mock me in their song.
- Nehemiah 4:2They all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to stir up trouble against it.
- Job 30:1“But now they mock me— those younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
- Psalms 22:6They cried to you and were delivered. In You they trusted, and were not disappointed.
- Psalms 35:15But at my stumbling they gathered in glee. Wretches gathered against me whom I did not know, tearing at me without ceasing.
- Psalms 44:13You are selling Your people cheaply— not even getting a great price for them.
- Psalms 69:11When I wept and fasted— that became a reproach to me.
- Psalms 79:4We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 123:3Show us favor, Adonai, show us favor! For we have endured much contempt.
- Psalms 137:3For there our captors demanded songs and our tormentors asked for joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
- Jeremiah 20:7Adonai, You enticed me, so I was enticed. You overpowered me, and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long. Everyone mocks me.
- Jeremiah 48:27After all, Israel is a laughingstock to you. Was he ever found among thieves, that whenever you speak of him, you should wag the head?
- Matthew 27:39Those passing by were jeering at Him, shaking their heads
- 1 Corinthians 4:9For it seems to me that God has put us, the emissaries, on display last of all—like men sentenced to death. For 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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