Lamentations 3:14

Israel's Affliction

¹³ He caused his war arrows to pierce my vital organs. ¹⁴ I have become a laughingstock to all my people, the object of their taunts throughout the day. ¹⁵ He has filled me with bitterness, making me drink wormwood.

All Day Long

My People

Jeremiah 20:7

You deceived me, LORD, and I've been deceived. You overpowered me, and you prevailed. I've become a laughing stock all day long, and everyone mocks me.

Lamentations 3:63

Watch! Whether they sit down or stand up, they mock me with their songs.

Psalm 22:6-7

But as for me, I am only a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people.

Nehemiah 4:2-4

He addressed his allies and the Samaritan officials, saying "What are these pathetic Jews doing? Are they intending to rebuild it by themselves? Do they intend to offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a single day? Can they make stones from this burned out rubble?"

Job 30:1-9

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

Psalm 35:15-16

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me attackers whom I did not know. They tore me apart and would not stop.

Psalm 44:13

You made us a laughing stock to our neighbors, a source of mockery and derision to those around us.

Psalm 69:11-12

When I dressed in sackcloth, I became an object of gossip among them.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

Psalm 123:3-4

Have mercy on us, LORD, have mercy, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Psalm 137:3

for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"

Jeremiah 48:27

Wasn't Israel an object of mocking for you? Wasn't he treated like a thief, so that whenever you spoke about him you shook your head in contempt?

Matthew 27:39-44

Those who passed by kept insulting him, shaking their heads,

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on display in last place, like men condemned to death. We have become a spectacle for the world, for angels, and for people to stare at.