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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Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.

and in the presence of his colleagues and the army of Samaria he said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they be left to themselves? Will they again offer sacrifice? Will they finish this in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones to life again from piles of dust?"

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Show us favor, O Lord, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!"

Lord, you coerced me into being a prophet, and I allowed you to do it. You overcame my resistance and prevailed over me. Now I have become a constant laughingstock. Everyone ridicules me.

For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?

Those who passed by defamed him, shaking their heads

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