Lamentations 3:14 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁴ I am laughed to scorne of all my people, they make songes vpon me all ye daye loge.

² & saide before his brethre & the mightie men of Samaria: What do the impotet Iewes? shall they be thus suffred? shall they offre? shal they perfourme it in one daie? shal they make ye stones whole againe, yt are brought to dust, & brent? ³ And Tobias the Ammonite beside him saide: Let the builde on, yf a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe their stonye wall. ⁴ Heare O thou oure God, how we are despysed, turne their shame vpon their awne heade, yt thou mayest geue them ouer in to despisinge in the londe of their captiuite.

¹ Bvt now they that are my inferiours & yonger then I, haue me in derision: yee eue they, whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set wt the dogges of my catell. ² The power & stregth of their hades might do me no good, & as for their age, it is spet & past awaye without eny profit. ³ For very misery & honger, they wente aboute in the wildernesse like wretches & beggers, ⁴ pluckynge vp herbes from amonge the bu?shes, & the Iunipers rote was their meate. ⁵ And when they were dryuen forth, men cried after them, as it had bene after a thefe. ⁶ Their dwellinge was beside foule brokes, yee in the caues & dennes of the earth. ⁷ Vpo the drye heeth wete they aboute crienge, & in the brome hilles they gathered them together. ⁸ They were the children of fooles & vylanes, which are deed awaye fro the worlde. ⁹ Now am I their songe, & am become their iestinge stocke.

⁶ But as for me, I am a worme and no man: a very scorne of me and the outcast of the people. ⁷ All they yt se me, laugh me to scorne: they shute out their lippes, and shake their heades.

¹⁵ But in my aduersite they reioyse, and gather them together: yee ye very lame come together agaynst me vnawarres, makynge mowes at me, & ceasse not. ¹⁶ With ye gredy & scornefull ypocrites, they gna?shed vpon me with theirteth.

¹³ Thou sellest thy people for naught, & takest no moneye for them.

¹¹ I put on a sackecloth, and therfore they iested vpon me. ¹² They that satt in the gate, spake agaynst me, and the dronckardes made songes vpon me.

⁴ We are become an open shame vnto oure enemies, a very scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde aboute vs.

³ Haue mercy vpo vs (o LORDE) haue mercy vpon vs, for we are vtterly despysed. ⁴ Oure soule is fylled wt the scornefull reprofe of the welthy, & with ye despitefulnesse of the proude.

³ The, they that led vs awaye captyue, requyred of vs a songe and melody in or heuynes: synge vs one of the songes of Sion.

⁷ O LORDE, thou makest me weake, but thou refreshest me, & makest me stronge agayne. All the daye longe am I despysed, and laughed to scorne of euery man:

²⁷ O Israell, shalt thou not laugh him to scorne, when he is taken amoge theues? Yee because off thy wordes that thou hast spoken agaynst him, thou shalt be dryuen awaye.

⁶³ Thou seist also their sittinge downe and their rysinge vp, they make their songes of nothinge but of me.

³⁹ They that wente by, reuyled him, and wagged their heades ⁴⁰ and sayde: Thou that breakest downe the teple of God, and buyldest it in thre dayes, helpe thyself. Yf thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse. ⁴¹ The hye prestes also in like maner with the scrybes & elders, laughed him to scorne, and sayde: ⁴² he hath helped other, and can not helpe himself: Yf he be the kynge of Israel, let him come downe now from the crosse, and we wil beleue him ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him delyuer him now, yf he wil haue him. For he hath sayde: I am the sonne of God. ⁴⁴ The murtherers also that were crucified with him, cast the same in his tethe.

⁹ Me thynketh that God hath set forth vs Apostles for the lowest off all, euen as those that are appoynted vnto death. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto ye worlde and to the angels, and vnto men. ¹⁰ We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed. ¹¹ Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, ¹² and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it: ¹³ We are euell spoken of, and we praye: We are become as it were the very outswepinges of ye worlde, yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme.