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 spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?

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

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

But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.

Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me.

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head?

But the passers-by reviled him, shaking their heads

For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.