Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Their mocking
King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Holman Bible
mocked by their songs
International Standard Version
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day.
A Conservative Version
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
American Standard Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Amplified
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
Bible in Basic English
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
Darby Translation
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
Julia Smith Translation
I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
King James 2000
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.
Modern King James verseion
I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I am laughed to scorn of all my people; they make songs upon me all the day long.
NET Bible
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
New Heart English Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, and their song all the day.
The Emphasized Bible
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;
Webster
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
World English Bible
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Youngs Literal Translation
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.
Themes
Judgments » Should lead to » Humiliation
Scorning and mocking » The wicked indulge in, against » Saints
Interlinear
S@chowq
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
13
He drove into my kidneys the arrows of his quiver;
14
Their mocking
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
Psalm 22:6-7
But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people.
Nehemiah 4:2-4
And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, "What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?"
Job 30:1-9
"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalm 35:15-16
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
Psalm 44:13
You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us.
Psalm 69:11-12
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.
Psalm 137:3
For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
Jeremiah 48:27
Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?
Matthew 27:39-44
And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men.