Lamentations 3:14

Israel's Affliction

¹³ He made the arrows of His quiver
To enter into my inward parts.
¹⁴ I have become a laughingstock to all my people,
Their mocking song all the day.
¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood.

All Day Long

My People

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived;
You have overcome me and prevailed.
I have become a laughingstock all day long;
Everyone mocks me.

Lamentations 3:63

Look on their sitting and their rising;
I am their mocking song.

Psalm 22:6-7

But I am a worm and not a man,
A reproach of men and despised by the people.

Nehemiah 4:2-4

He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves? Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble even the burned ones?”

Job 30:1-9

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Psalm 35:15-16

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,
They slandered me without ceasing.

Psalm 44:13

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

Psalm 123:3-4

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us,
For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Psalm 137:3

For there our captors demanded of us songs,
And our tormentors mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

Jeremiah 48:27

Now was not Israel a laughingstock to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak about him you shake your head in scorn.

Matthew 27:39-44

And those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

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