Lamentations 3:14 · KJV
“I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.”
— Lamentations 3:14
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. {arrows: Heb. sons}
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
Lamentations 3 — Context
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. {arrows: Heb. sons}
14I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.
15He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood. {bitterness: Heb. bitternesses}
16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {covered...: or, rolled me in the ashes}
Cross References
Jeremiah 20:7
O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. {was deceived: or, was enticed}
Lamentations 3:63
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I {am} their musick.
Psalms 22:6-7
But I {am} a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
Psalms 35:15-16
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: {yea}, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew {it} not; they did tear {me}, and ceased not: {adversity: Heb. halting}
Psalms 79:4
We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms 69:11-12
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Jeremiah 48:27
For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. {skippedst...: or, movedst thyself}
Job 30:1-9
But now {they that are} younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. {younger...: Heb. of fewer days than I}