Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
I have become a laughingstock 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.
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.
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 has caused the arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts. 14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
LORD, 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.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.
Psalm 22:6-7
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
Nehemiah 4:2-4
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?"
Job 30:1-9
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Psalm 35:15-16
But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I did not know it. They tore at me, and did not cease.
Psalm 44:13
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are 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 reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Psalm 137:3
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."
Jeremiah 48:27
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.
Matthew 27:39-44
Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads,
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
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.