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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 speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. (Psa. 69:12)

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Lam. 3:63• 63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. (Lam. 3:63)
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Neh. 4:2‑4• 2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
 3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
 4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the 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 have set with the dogs of my flock.
 2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
 3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
 4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
 5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
 6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
 7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
 8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
 9And now am I 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 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 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:
 16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. (Psa. 35:15‑16)
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Psa. 44:13• 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 44:13)
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Psa. 69:11‑12• 11I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
 12They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards. (Psa. 69:11‑12)
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Psa. 79:4• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. (Psa. 79:4)
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Psa. 123:3‑4• 3Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
 4Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and 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 wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. (Psa. 137:3)
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Jer. 20:7• 7O 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. (Jer. 20:7)
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Jer. 48:27• 27For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy. (Jer. 48:27)
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Matt. 27:39‑44• 39And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
 40And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
 41Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
 42He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.
 43He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.
 44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth. (Matt. 27:39‑44)
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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• 9For 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.
 10We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honorable, but we are despised.
 11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
 12And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
 13Being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day. (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.