Lamentations 3:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

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  • Jer 20:7 : 7 O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.
  • Lam 3:63 : 63 Observe their sitting down and rising up; I am their song.
  • Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Ps 44:13 : 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.
  • Ps 69:11-12 : 11 I made sackcloth my garment also, and I became a proverb to them. 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • Ps 79:4 : 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
  • Ps 123:3-4 : 3 Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. 4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorn of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.
  • Ps 137:3 : 3 For there, those who carried us away captive required of us a song; and those who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
  • Jer 48:27 : 27 For was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For whenever you spoke of him, you skipped for joy.
  • Neh 4:2-4 : 2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones from the heaps of rubbish that are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Even what they build, if a fox goes up, he will break down their stone wall. 4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them as prey in a land of captivity:
  • Job 30:1-9 : 1 But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness in former times desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food. 5 They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief; 6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. 7 Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they gathered together. 8 They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. 9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their byword.
  • Matt 27:39-44 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads, 40 And saying, You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, 42 He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him. 43 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God. 44 The thieves also, who were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.
  • 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For 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. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

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    6He has made me also a byword of the people; and in the past I was like a tambourine.

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    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

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    7O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.

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  • Ps 69:11-12
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    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

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    13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are around us.

    14You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

    15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

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    4Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

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    3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

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  • Lam 3:19
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    19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Ps 55:3
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    3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.