Lamentations 3:14
qI was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Jeremiah 20:7-20:10 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. 8. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. 10. ¶For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Psalms 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
1 Corinthians 4:9 For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Psalms 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
Psalms 69:19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.
Lamentations 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Though some think the prophet speaks this of himself, yet, considering he hath all along spoken in the name of the people, it is not probable, which makes a difficulty, how the people could be a derision to themselves? It seemeth therefore ill translated, and that it should have been,
leaving out my, that is, to all foreigners, to whom the Jews were made a derision and a hissing; there only wants the last letter in [Hebrew] and it is well observed by the learned author of the English Annotations, that the like defect is to be found, as to the same word, 2Sa 22:41, compared with Psa 18:43, so that is not a pronoun affix, (upon which supposal our translators go,) but one of the letters that form the plural number, the other being left out, and [Hebrew] put for [Hebrew].