“Now I am their taunting song; yes, I am their byword.
“I am a laughingstock to my neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him; the righteous, upright man is a laughingstock.
“And He has made me a byword of the people, someone in whose face they spit.
They were children of fools, yes, children of vile men; they were scourged from the earth.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
O Lord, You have deceived me and I was deceived; You are stronger than I and have prevailed. I am held in derision daily; everyone mocks me.
I have become the derision of all my people, their mocking song all the day.
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Behold their sitting down and their rising up; I am their mocking song.
