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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Myles Coverdale Bible

Lamentations 3:14

I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Judgments;   Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Neginah, Neginoth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lamentations, Book of;   Laughing-Stock;   Laughter;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ekah (Lamentations) Rabbati;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I am a laughingstock to all my people,mocked by their songs all day long.
Hebrew Names Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
King James Version
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
English Standard Version
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
New American Standard Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their song of ridicule all the day.
New Century Version
I was a joke to all my people, who make fun of me with songs all day long.
Amplified Bible
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people, And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
World English Bible
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.
Legacy Standard Bible
I have become a laughingstock to all my people,Their music of mockery all the day.
Berean Standard Bible
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Contemporary English Version
I am a joke to everyone— no one ever stops making fun of me.
Complete Jewish Bible
I'm a laughingstock to all my people, the butt of their taunts all day long.
Darby Translation
I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
Easy-to-Read Version
I have become a joke to all my people. All day long they sing songs about me and make fun of me.
George Lamsa Translation
I have become the ridicule of all nations; and their scoffing song all the day.
Good News Translation
People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all.
Lexham English Bible
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.
Literal Translation
I was a mockery to all my people, their song all the day.
American Standard Version
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Bible in Basic English
I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
King James Version (1611)
I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songues vpon me all the day long.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.
English Revised Version
I am become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He. Y am maad in to scorn to al the puple, the song of hem al dai.
Update Bible Version
I have become a derision for my whole nation, and their song all the day.
Webster's Bible Translation
I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.
New English Translation
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
New King James Version
I have become the ridicule of all my people-- Their taunting song all the day.
New Living Translation
My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
New Life Bible
All my people laugh at me. They sing songs that make fun of me all day long.
New Revised Standard
I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt-songs all day long.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I have become a derision to all my people, their song all the day;
Douay-Rheims Bible
He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.
Revised Standard Version
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.
Young's Literal Translation
I have been a derision to all my people, Their song all the day.

Contextual Overview

1 I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery. 2 He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light. 3 Agaynst me only he turneth his honde, & layeth it euer vpon me. 4 My flesh & my skynne hath he made olde, and my bones hath he brussed. 5 He hath buylded rounde aboute me, & closed me in with gall and trauayle. 6 He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer. 7 He hath so hedged me in, that I can not get out, & hath layed heuy lynckes vpon me. 8 Though I crie & call piteously, yet heareth he not my prayer. 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with foure squared stones, & made my pathes croked. 10 He layeth waite for me like a Bere, and as a lyon in a hole.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 3:63, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Job 30:1-9, Psalms 22:6, Psalms 22:7, Psalms 35:15, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 44:13, Psalms 69:11, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 79:4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 137:3, Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 48:27, Matthew 27:39-44, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13

Reciprocal: Job 30:9 - am I Lamentations 3:45 - as Luke 23:35 - derided

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden?
Genesis 3:15
And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfe Heua, because she is the mother of all lyuynge.
Genesis 9:6
He that sheddeth mas bloude, his bloude shal be shed by man agayne, for God made man after his owne licknesse.
Leviticus 20:25
that ye also shulde separate the cleane beestes fro the vncleane, and the vncleane foules from the cleane: & not to defyle youre soules vpon beestes, vpon foules & vpon all that crepeth on the grounde: which I haue separated vnto you, that they shulde be vncleane.
Psalms 72:9
They that dwell in the wildernes, shal knele before him, & his enemies shal licke the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
And thou shalt be brought lowe, and speake out of the earth, and thy wordes shal go humbly out of ye grounde.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolff and the lambe shal fede together, and the lyon shal eate haye like the bullocke. But earth shalbe the serpetes meate. There shal no man hurte ner slaye another, in all my holy hill, saieth the LORDE.
Micah 7:17
They shal licke the dust like a serpent, & as the wormes of the earth, yt tremble in their holes. They shalbe afrayed of the LORDE oure God, & they shal feare ye.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I was a derision to all my people,.... So Jeremiah was to the people of the Jews, and especially to his townsmen, the men of Anathoth, Jeremiah 20:7; but if he represents the body of the people, others must be intended; for they could not be a derision to themselves. The Targum renders it, to the spoilers of my people; that is, either the wicked among themselves, or the Chaldeans; and Aben Ezra well observes, that "ammi" is put for "ammim", the people; and so is to be understood of all the people round about them, the Edomites, Moabites, and Ammonites, that laughed at their destruction; though some interpret it of the wicked among the Jews, to whom the godly were a derision; or of those who had been formerly subject to the Jews, and so their people, though not now:

[and] their song all the day; beating on their tabrets, and striking their harps, for joy; for the word l used signifies not vocal, but instrumental music; of such usage of the Messiah, see Psalms 69:12.

l נגינתם a נגן "pulsare istrumentum musicum".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Having dwelt upon the difficulties which hemmed in his path, he now shows that there are dangers attending upon escape.

Lamentations 3:11

The meaning is, “God, as a lion, lying in wait, has made me turn aside from my path, but my flight was in vain, for springing upon me from His ambush lie has torn me in pieces.”

Desolate - Or, astonied, stupefied that he cannot flee. The word is a favorite one with Jeremiah.

Lamentations 3:12

This new simile arises out of the former one, the idea of a hunter being suggested by that of the bear and lion. When the hunter comes, it is not to save him.

Lamentations 3:14

Metaphor is dropped, and Jeremiah shows the real nature of the arrows which rankled in him so deeply.

Lamentations 3:15

“He hath” filled me to the full with bitterness, i. e. bitter sorrows Job 9:18.

Lamentations 3:16

Broken my teeth with gravel stones - His bread was so filled with grit that in eating it his teeth were broken.

Lamentations 3:17

Prosperity - literally, as in the margin, i. e. I forgot what good was, I lost the very idea of what it meant.

Lamentations 3:18

The prophet reaches the verge of despair. But by struggling against it he reaches at length firm ground.


 
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