Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.
New American Standard Bible
Their mocking
King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Holman Bible
mocked by their songs
International Standard Version
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day.
A Conservative Version
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
American Standard Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Amplified
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
Bible in Basic English
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
Darby Translation
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
Julia Smith Translation
I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
King James 2000
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Modern King James verseion
I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long.
NET Bible
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
New Heart English Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, and their song all the day.
The Emphasized Bible
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;
Webster
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
World English Bible
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
Themes
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Scorning and mocking » The wicked indulge in, against » Saints
Interlinear
S@chowq
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
13 He shot {the arrows of his quiver} into my kidneys. 14 I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me [with] wormwood.
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
You have persuaded me, Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day [long]. {Everyone} [is] mocking me.
Lamentations 3:63
Look at their sitting and their standing, I [am] their mocking song.
Psalm 22:6-7
But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.
Nehemiah 4:2-4
Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore [these things] for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?"
Job 30:1-9
"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.
Psalm 35:15-16
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.
Psalm 44:13
You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
Psalm 69:11-12
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
Psalm 123:3-4
Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.
Psalm 137:3
For there our captors asked of us words of a song, and our tormentors [asked of us] jubilation, "Sing for us from a song of Zion."
Jeremiah 48:27
Now [was] not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as} you spoke over him you shook [your head].
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people.