Lamentations 3:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

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  • Jer 20:7 : 7 O Lorde, thou hast deceiued me, and I am deceiued: thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily: euery one mocketh me.
  • Lam 3:63 : 63 Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
  • Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worme, and not a man: a shame of men, and the contempt of the people. 7 All they that see me, haue me in derision: they make a mowe and nod the head, saying,
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not, 16 With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.
  • Ps 44:13 : 13 Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.
  • Ps 69:11-12 : 11 I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them. 12 They that sate in the gate, spake of mee, and the drunkardes sang of me.
  • Ps 79:4 : 4 Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Haue mercie vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercie vpon vs: for we haue suffered too much contempt. 4 Our soule is filled too full of ye mocking of the wealthy, & of the despitefulnes of the proude.
  • Ps 137:3 : 3 Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For diddest not thou deride Israel, as though he had bene found among theeues? for when thou speakest of him, thou art moued.
  • Neh 4:2-4 : 2 And sayde before his brethren and the armie of Samaria, thus he sayde, What doe these weake Iewes? wil they fortifie them selues? wil they sacrifice? will they finish it in a day? will they make the stones whole againe out of the heapes of dust, seeing they are burnt? 3 And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and said, Although they buylde, yet if a foxe goe vp, he shall euen breake downe their stonie wall. 4 Heare, O our God (for we are despised) and turne their shame vpon their owne head, and giue them vnto a pray in the lande of their captiuitie,
  • Job 30:1-9 : 1 Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes. 2 For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them? 3 For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste. 4 They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate. 5 They were chased forth fro among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe. 6 Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes. 7 They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues. 8 They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth. 9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by, reuiled him, wagging their heades, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest ye Temple, & buildest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe: if thou be ye Sonne of God, come downe fro ye crosse. 41 Likewise also the hie Priests mocking him, with the Scribes, and Elders, and Pharises, said, 42 He saued others, but he cannot saue him selfe: if he be ye King of Israel, let him now come downe from ye crosse, and we will beleeue in him. 43 He trusted in God, let him deliuer him nowe, if he will haue him: for he saide, I am the Sonne of God. 44 The selfe same thing also ye theeues which were crucified with him, cast in his teeth.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I thinke that God hath set forth vs the last Apostles, as men appointed to death: for we are made a gasing stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men. 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, and ye are wise in Christ: we are weake, and ye are strong: ye are honourable, and we are despised. 11 Vnto this houre we both hunger, & thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and haue no certaine dwelling place, 12 And labour, working with our owne handes: we are reuiled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffer it. 13 We are euill spoken of, and we pray: we are made as the filth of the world, the offskowring of all things, vnto this time.

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    9And now am I their song, and I am their talke.

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  • Ps 31:11
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    11I was a reproch among all mine enemies, but specially among my neighbours: and a feare to mine acquaintance, who seeing me in the streete, fled from me.

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    8Mine enemies reuile me dayly, and they that rage against me, haue sworne against me.

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  • Jer 20:7-8
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    7O Lorde, thou hast deceiued me, and I am deceiued: thou art stronger then I, and hast preuailed: I am in derision daily: euery one mocketh me.

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  • Ps 69:11-12
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    11I put on a sacke also: and I became a prouerbe vnto them.

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    25I became also a rebuke vnto them: they that looked vpon me, shaked their heads.

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    11He hath stopped my wayes, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

    12He hath bent his bow & made me a marke for the arrow.

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  • Lam 3:3-5
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    3Surely he is turned against me: he turneth his hand against me all the day.

    4My flesh and my skinne hath he caused to waxe olde, and he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall, and labour.

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    13From aboue hath hee sent fire into my bones, which preuaile against them: he hath spred a net for my feete, and turned me backe: hee hath made me desolate, and daily in heauinesse.

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    10They haue opened their mouthes vpon me, and smitten me on the cheeke in reproch; they gather themselues together against me.

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    15But in mine aduersitie they reioyced, and gathered them selues together: the abiects assembled themselues against me, and knewe not: they tare me and ceased not,

    16With the false skoffers at bankets, gnashing their teeth against me.

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    13Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.

    14Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, & a nodding of the head among the people.

    15My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me,

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    6I am bowed, and crooked very sore: I goe mourning all the day.

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  • Job 19:18-19
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    18The wicked also despised mee, and when I rose, they spake against me.

    19All my secret friends abhorred me, & they whome I loued, are turned against me.

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    5Mine owne wordes grieue me dayly: all their thoughtes are against me to doe me hurt.

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    4Wee are a reproche to our neighbours, euen a scorne and derision vnto them that are round about vs.

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    14I am like water powred out, and all my bones are out of ioynt: mine heart is like waxe: it is molten in the middes of my bowels.

  • Ps 69:20-21
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    20Rebuke hath broken mine heart, and I am full of heauinesse, and I looked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none.

    21For they gaue me gall in my meate, and in my thirst they gaue me vineger to drinke.

  • Jer 15:17
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    17I sate not in the assembly of the mockers, neither did I reioyce, but sate alone because of thy plague: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

  • Job 12:4
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    4I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth vpon God, and he heareth him: the iust and the vpright is laughed to scorne.

  • Lam 1:21
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    21They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

  • Jer 20:10
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    10For I had heard the railing of many, and feare on euery side. Declare, said they, and wee wil declare it: all my familiars watched for mine halting, saying, It may be that he is deceiued: so we shall preuaile against him, and we shal execute our vengeance vpon him.

  • Ps 42:10
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    10My bones are cut asunder, while mine enemies reproch me, saying dayly vnto me, Where is thy God?

  • Job 17:2
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    2There are none but mockers with mee, & mine eye continueth in their bitternesse.

  • Ps 143:4
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    4And my spirit was in perplexitie in me, and mine heart within me was amased.

  • Ps 42:3
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    3My teares haue bin my meate day & night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?

  • Lam 3:1
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    1I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

  • Lam 3:19
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    19Remembring mine affliction, & my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3For the voyce of the enemie, and for the vexation of ye wicked, because they haue brought iniquitie vpon me, and furiously hate me.