Lamentations 3:14 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁴ I am become a laughing-stock to all my people, their jeering song all the day.

^{2 (3:34)} And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will people suffer them to build? will they sacrifice? will they complete it in one day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish, seeing that they have been burnt? ^{3 (3:35)} And Tobiyah the ‘Ammonite was near him, and he said, Even what they are building, if a fox were to run up, he would readily break through their stone wall. ^{4 (3:36)} Hear, O our God! how we are become a scorn; and bring their reproach back upon their own head, and give them up for prey in the land of captivity.

¹ But now they who are younger than I in years laugh at me, whose fathers I scorned to put as equals with the dogs of my flocks. ² Yea, what possible use can the strength of their hands be unto me, over whom old age hath passed fruitlessly? ³ Who suffer for want and famine in solitude; who flee into the wilderness where all is darkness, ruin, and desolation; ⁴ Who crop off mallows by the bushes, and have broom-bush roots as their bread; ⁵ Who are driven forth from among men, who are shouted after as though they were thieves, ⁶ To dwell in the caverns of the valleys, in holes of the earth, and on naked cliffs. ⁷ Among the bushes they shriek; under briers they are huddled together, ⁸ The children of the worthless, yea, the children of the nameless, who were outcasts from the land. ⁹ But now I am become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.

^{6 (22:7)} But I am a worm, and not a man, a reproach of men, and despised of people. ^{7 (22:8)} All those who see me laugh me to scorn: they draw open their lips, they shake their head, saying,

¹⁵ But in my downfall they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; there gathered themselves together against me abject wretches, whom I knew not; they did tear me, and ceased not: ¹⁶ With hypocritical babbling mockers, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

^{13 (44:14)} Thou renderest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.

^{11 (69:12)} And when I made sackcloth my garment, I became a proverb to them. ^{12 (69:13)} Those that sit in the gate talk against me; and about me make songs the drinkers of strong drink.

⁴ We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those that are round about us.

³ Be gracious unto us, O Lord! be gracious unto us; for we are overburdened with contempt. ⁴ Our soul is overburdened with the scorn of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud oppressors.

³ For there our captors demanded of us the words of song; and those that mocked us, joy, saying, Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

⁷ Thou didst persuade me, O Lord, and I was persuaded; thou laidst thy hand strongly on me, and didst prevail: I am laughed at all the time, every one mocketh me.

²⁷ For was not Israel a derision unto thee? or was he found among thieves? that whenever thou spokest of him, thou hadst to shake thy head?

⁶³ Oh look upon their sitting down, and their rising up: I am their jeering song.