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