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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When they sit and when they rise, look,
I am mocked by their songs.

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

But now they mock me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.

But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by people.

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.

We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.

Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,
for we’ve had more than enough contempt.

for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.
You seized me and prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all the time;
everyone ridicules me.

Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.