Lamentations 3:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the burden of their songs all day long.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ I was a derision to all my people; And their song all the day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ I have become a derision to all my people, and [the subject of] their singsong all the day.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ I have become a joke to all my people, the object of their song of ridicule all day long.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ He. I am made a derision to all my people, their song all the day long.

Lamentations 3:14 Cross References

Psalm 137:3

For there our captors required of us songs, and our tormentors, mirth, saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

Psalm 44:13

Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.

Jeremiah 20:7

O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me.

Jeremiah 48:27

Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

Lamentations 3:63

Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the burden of their songs.