Christmas Day
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Read the Bible
The NET Bible®
Lamentations 3:14
Bible Study Resources
Concordances:
- Nave'sDictionaries:
- FaussetEncyclopedias:
- InternationalParallel Translations
I am a laughingstock to all my people,mocked by their songs all day long.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their song of ridicule all the day.
I was a joke to all my people, who make fun of me with songs all day long.
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people, And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
I have become a laughingstock to all my people,Their music of mockery all the day.
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
I am a joke to everyone— no one ever stops making fun of me.
I'm a laughingstock to all my people, the butt of their taunts all day long.
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
I have become a joke to all my people. All day long they sing songs about me and make fun of me.
I have become the ridicule of all nations; and their scoffing song all the day.
People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all.
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.
I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.
I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.
I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.
I am become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
He. Y am maad in to scorn to al the puple, the song of hem al dai.
I have become a derision for my whole nation, and their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.
My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
All my people laugh at me. They sing songs that make fun of me all day long.
I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt-songs all day long.
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;
He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
Contextual Overview
א (Alef)
I am the man who has experienced affliction from the rod of his wrath. 2 He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light. 3 He repeatedly attacks me, he turns his hand against me all day long. 4ב (Bet)
He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones. 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship. 6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago. 7ג (Gimel)
He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains. 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer. 9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. 10ד (Dalet)
To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.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
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
And I will put hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
"Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God's image God has made humankind."
Therefore you must distinguish between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean, and you must not make yourselves detestable by means of an animal or bird or anything that creeps on the ground—creatures I have distinguished for you as unclean.
Before him the coastlands will bow down, and his enemies will lick the dust.
You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.
A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake's food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain," says the Lord .
They will lick the dust like a snake, like serpents crawling on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds to the Lord our God; they will be terrified of you.
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.
