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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I was a derision
schowq (Hebrew #7814)
from 7832; laughter (in merriment or defiance)
KJV usage: derision, laughter(-ed to scorn, -ing), mocked, sport.
Pronounce: sekh-oke'
Origin: or schoq {sekh-oke'}
to all my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
; and their song
ngiynah (Hebrew #5058)
from 5059; properly, instrumental music; by implication, a stringed instrument; by extension, a poem set to music; specifically, an epigram
KJV usage: stringed instrument, musick, Neginoth (plural), song.
Pronounce: neg-ee-naw'
Origin: or ngiynath (Psa. 61:title) {neg-ee-nath'}
p all the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Psa. 69:12• 12They that sit in the gate talk of me, and I am the song of the drunkards. (Psa. 69:12)

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Lam. 3:63• 63Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song. (Lam. 3:63)
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Neh. 4:2‑4• 2And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? shall they be permitted to go on? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, when they are burned?
 3And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox went up, it would break down their stone wall.--
 4Hear, our God, for we are despised, and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in a land of captivity! (Neh. 4:2‑4)
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Job 30:1‑9• 1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
 2Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?
 3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
 4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
 5They are driven forth from among men--they cry after them as after a thief--
 6To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
 7They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
 8Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
 9And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword. (Job 30:1‑9)
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Psa. 22:6‑7• 6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.
 7All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying: (Psa. 22:6‑7)
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Psa. 35:15‑16• 15But at my halting they rejoiced, and gathered together: the slanderers gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
 16With profane jesters for bread, they have gnashed their teeth against me. (Psa. 35:15‑16)
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Psa. 44:13• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us; (Psa. 44:13)
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Psa. 69:11‑12• 11And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
 12They that sit in the gate talk of me, and I am the song of the drunkards. (Psa. 69:11‑12)
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Psa. 79:4• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)
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Psa. 123:3‑4• 3Be gracious unto us, O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
 4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)
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Psa. 137:3• 3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psa. 137:3)
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Jer. 20:7• 7Jehovah, thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed; thou hast laid hold of me, and hast prevailed; I am become a derision the whole day: every one mocketh me. (Jer. 20:7)
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Jer. 48:27• 27For was not Israel a derision unto thee? Was he found among thieves, that as oft as thou didst speak of him, thou didst shake the head? (Jer. 48:27)
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Matt. 27:39‑44• 39But the passers-by reviled him, shaking their heads
 40and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.
 41And in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,
 42He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.
 43He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will have him. For he said, I am Son of God.
 44And the robbers also who had been crucified with him cast the same reproaches on him. (Matt. 27:39‑44)
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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• 9For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
 10*We* are fools for Christ's sake, but *ye* prudent in Christ: *we* weak, but *ye* strong: *ye* glorious, but *we* in dishonour.
 11To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
 12and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;
 13insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:9‑13)
• The mockery of his brethren was not the least part of his trial and bitterness. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 3:1-21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day.