Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
I am become 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.
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 hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins. 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day. 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.
Lamentations 3:63
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
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 spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?
Job 30:1-9
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Psalm 35:15-16
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:
Psalm 44:13
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalm 69:11-12
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them.
Psalm 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalm 123:3-4
Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Psalm 137:3
For there they that led us captive required of us songs, 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 thee? was he found among thieves? for as often as thou speakest of him, thou waggest the head.
Matthew 27:39-44
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For, I think, God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.