And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
O Jehovah, thou hast persuaded me, and I was persuaded; thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh me.