Parallel Verses
King James 2000
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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.
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
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References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my heart. 14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived: you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am in derision daily, everyone mocks me.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.
Psalm 22:6-7
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Nehemiah 4:2-4
And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they finish in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Job 30:1-9
But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalm 35:15-16
But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalm 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalm 69:11-12
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalm 79:4
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalm 137:3
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.
Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a derision unto you? was he found among thieves? for when you spoke of him, you wagged your head.
Matthew 27:39-44
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.