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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• 12Those that sit at the gate talk of me,{HR}And [I am] songs to drinkers of strong drink. (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?
 3{i}And Tobijah the Ammonite was by him, and he said,{/i} 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• 1And now at me they laugh, younger in days than I,{HR}Whose fathers I had disdained to set with the dogs of my flock!
 2Even the strength of their hands, what [was] it to me?
 3In them the prime was lost through want and hunger,{HR}Who yesterday were gnawing the desert, the waste, and the wild,
 4Plucking saltwort in the jungles, roots of broom their food.
 5At them, driven out of the midst, they hooted, as [at] a thief,
 6To dwell in the horror of glens, dens of the earth, and rocks.
 7Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles huddled,
 8Sons of folly, sons of no-name, who were whipped out of the land.
 9And now I am become their song, and I am their bye-word; (Job 30:1‑9)
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Psa. 22:6‑7• 6But I am a worm and not a man,{HR}A reproach of men and despised of the people.
 7All those who see me mock me,{HR}They open wide with the lip, they shake the head. (Psa. 22:6‑7)
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Psa. 35:15‑16• 15But in my halting they rejoiced and were gathered together;{HR}The slanderers were gathered together against me,{HR}And I knew it not; they reviled and were not silent,
 16With profane mockers [in] a feast, gnashing upon me [with] their teeth. (Psa. 35:15‑16)
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Psa. 44:13• 13Thou settest us [as] a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A scorn and a derision to those that are round about us. (Psa. 44:13)
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Psa. 69:11‑12• 11When I made my clothing sackcloth,{HR}I too was to them for a proverb.
 12Those that sit at the gate talk of me,{HR}And [I am] songs to drinkers of strong drink. (Psa. 69:11‑12)
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Psa. 79:4• 4We are become a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A mockery and derision to those round about us. (Psa. 79:4)
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Psa. 123:3‑4• 3Be gracious to us, Jehovah,{HR}Be gracious to us,{HR}For greatly are we filled with contempt.
 4Greatly is our soul filled with the scorning of those at ease,{HR}The contempt of the proud. (Psa. 123:3‑4)
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Psa. 137:3• 3For there our captors asked us words of song,{HR}And our spoilers mirth, [saying] Sing to us from a song of Zion. (Psa. 137:3)
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Jer. 20:7• 7{i}Jehovah, 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.{/i} (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. O ye that dwell in Moab, (Jer. 48:27)
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Matt. 27:39‑44• 39{i}But the passers-by reviled him, shaking their heads{/i}
 40{i}and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou art Son of God, descend from the cross.{/i}
 41{i}[And] in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,{/i}
 42{i}He saved others, himself he cannot save. He is King of Israel: let him descend now from the cross, and we will believe on him.{/i}
 43{i}He trusted upon God; let him save him now if he will [have] him. For he said, I am Son of God.{/i}
 44{i}And the robbers also who had been crucified with him cast the same reproaches on him.{/i} (Matt. 27:39‑44)
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1 Cor. 4:9‑13• 9For, I think, b God set us the apostles last as devoted to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, to both angels and men:
 10we, fools for Christ, but ye prudent in Christ; we weak, but ye strong; ye illustrious, but we disgraced.
 11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted and are homeless wanderers,
 12and we toil, working with our own hands; reviled, we bless, persecuted, we suffer;
 13slandered, we beseech. We became as the world's scum, off-scouring 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.