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 at their sitting and their standing, I [am] their mocking song.

Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore [these things] for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble--even those burned up?"

"But now [those] younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease.

You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

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

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt.

For there our captors asked of us words of a song, and our tormentors [asked of us] jubilation, "Sing for us from a song of Zion."

You have persuaded me, Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day [long]. {Everyone} [is] mocking me.

Now [was] not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For {as often as} you spoke over him you shook [your head].

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads

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