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 their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? 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 the rubbish which are burned?

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have 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: yea, 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 neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.

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

Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

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

O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.