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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You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?"

"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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

But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

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

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.

For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.