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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Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

And he spake 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 make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

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

We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.

Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us required of us mirth,'saying , Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.