Lamentations 3:14

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am a laughingstock to all my people,mocked by their songs all day long.

Hebrew Names Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

English Standard Version
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.

New American Standard Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their song of ridicule all the day.

New Century Version
I was a joke to all my people, who make fun of me with songs all day long.

Amplified Bible
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people, And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

World English Bible
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

Legacy Standard Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people,Their music of mockery all the day.

Berean Standard Bible
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Contemporary English Version
I am a joke to everyone— no one ever stops making fun of me.

Complete Jewish Bible
I'm a laughingstock to all my people, the butt of their taunts all day long.

Darby Translation
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.

Easy-to-Read Version
I have become a joke to all my people. All day long they sing songs about me and make fun of me.

George Lamsa Translation
I have become the ridicule of all nations; and their scoffing song all the day.

Good News Translation
People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all.

Lexham English Bible
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.

Literal Translation
I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.

American Standard Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Bible in Basic English
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

King James Version (1611)
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.

English Revised Version
I am become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He. Y am maad in to scorn to al the puple, the song of hem al dai.

Update Bible Version
I have become a derision for my whole nation, and their song all the day.

Webster's Bible Translation
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

New English Translation
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

New King James Version
I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.

New Living Translation
My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.

New Life Bible
All my people laugh at me. They sing songs that make fun of me all day long.

New Revised Standard
I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt-songs all day long.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

Revised Standard Version
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.

Young's Literal Translation
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

Contextual Overview

¹ I'm the man who has seen trouble, trouble coming from the lash of God 's anger. He took me by the hand and walked me into pitch-black darkness. Yes, he's given me the back of his hand over and over and over again. ⁴He turned me into a scarecrow of skin and bones, then broke the bones. He hemmed me in, ganged up on me, poured on the trouble and hard times. He locked me up in deep darkness, like a corpse nailed inside a coffin. ⁷He shuts me in so I'll never get out, manacles my hands, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He's got me cornered. ¹⁰He's a prowling bear tracking me down, a lion in hiding ready to pounce. He knocked me from the path and ripped me to pieces. When he finished, there was nothing left of me. He took out his bow and arrows and used me for target practice. ¹³He shot me in the stomach with arrows from his quiver. Everyone took me for a joke, made me the butt of their mocking ballads. He forced rotten, stinking food down my throat, bloated me with vile drinks. ¹⁶He ground my face into the gravel. He pounded me into the mud. I gave up on life altogether. I've forgotten what the good life is like. I said to myself, "This is it. I'm finished. God is a lost cause." ¹⁹I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all—oh, how well I remember— the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 3:63, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Job 30:1-9, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 69:11, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 137:3, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 48:27, Matthew 27:39-44, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13

Reciprocal: Job 30:9 - am I Lamentations 3:45 - as Luke 23:35 - derided

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
The serpent was clever, more clever than any wild animal God had made. He spoke to the Woman: "Do I understand that God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:20
The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God's very nature. You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"

Psalms 72:9
Foes will fall on their knees before God, his enemies lick the dust. Kings remote and legendary will pay homage, kings rich and resplendent will turn over their wealth. All kings will fall down and worship, and godless nations sign up to serve him, Because he rescues the poor at the first sign of need, the destitute who have run out of luck. He opens a place in his heart for the down-and-out, he restores the wretched of the earth. He frees them from tyranny and torture— when they bleed, he bleeds; when they die, he dies.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I was a derision to all my people,.... So Jeremiah was to the people of the Jews, and especially to his townsmen, the men of Anathoth, Jeremiah 20:7; but if he represents the body of the people, others must be intended; for they could not be a derision to themselves. The Targum renders it, to the spoilers of my people; that is, either the wicked among themselves, or the Chaldeans; and Aben Ezra well observes, that "ammi" is put for "ammim", the people; and so is to be understood of all the people round about them, the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, that laughed at their destruction; though some interpret it of the wicked among the Jews, to whom the godly were a derision; or of those who had been formerly subject to the Jews, and so their people, though not now:

[and] their song all the day; beating on their tabrets, and striking their harps, for joy; for the word l used signifies not vocal, but instrumental music; of such usage of the Messiah, see Psalms 69:12.

l נגינתם a נגן "pulsare istrumentum musicum".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.