Lamentations 3:14

Israel's Affliction

¹³ ה HeHe pierced my kidneys
with His arrows.
¹⁴ I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
¹⁵ He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood.

All Day Long

My People

Jeremiah 20:7

You deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.
You seized me and prevailed.
I am a laughingstock all the time;
everyone ridicules me.

Lamentations 3:63

When they sit and when they rise, look,
I am mocked by their songs.

Psalm 22:6-7

But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by people.

Nehemiah 4:2-4

before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria, and said, “What are these pathetic Jews doing? Can they restore it by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they ever finish it? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Job 30:1-9

But now they mock me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.

Psalm 35:15-16

But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.

Psalm 44:13

You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

Psalm 69:11-12

I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.

Psalm 79:4

We have become an object of reproach
to our neighbors,
a source of mockery and ridicule
to those around us.

Psalm 123:3-4

Show us favor, Lord, show us favor,
for we’ve had more than enough contempt.

Psalm 137:3

for our captors there asked us for songs,
and our tormentors, for rejoicing:
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”

Jeremiah 48:27

Wasn’t Israel a laughingstock to you? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.”

Matthew 27:39-44

Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

1 Corinthians 4:9-13

For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.