"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock[2] among the peoples.
O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me.
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
"All our enemies open their mouths against us;
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.