I was a derision to all my people; their song all the day.
Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I shall be persuaded: thou didst hold me fast, and thou wilt prevail: I was for a derision all the day, all mocking to me.
Their sitting and their rising, look thou: I their song.
And if Israel was not a derision to thee? if he was found among thieves? for after thy speaking of him thou wilt move to and fro.
For there they carrying us away captive asked us the words of a song; and they heaping us up gladness; Sing to us from the song of Zion.
We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.
Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.