Lamentations 3:14

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Lamentations 3:14

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

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Look on their sitting and their rising;

I am their mocking song.

He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the

dusty rubble even the burned ones?”

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

But I am a worm and not a man,
A reproach of men and despised by the people.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The

smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,

They

slandered me without ceasing.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and derision to those around us.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,

For we are greatly filled with contempt.

For there our captors

demanded of us songs,

And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived;
You have overcome me and prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.

Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he

caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.