I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
- KJV I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- NKJV I have become the ridicule of all my people— Their taunting song all the day.
- NASB I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their song of ridicule all the day.
- NLT My own people laugh at me. All day long they sing their mocking songs.
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Quick answer
He has become a laughingstock, the subject of mocking songs all day. It voices the pain of public ridicule in suffering.
Overview
The sufferer is derided by his own people and made the theme of their taunting songs. Mockery adds the wound of shame to the wound of affliction. This experience of being scorned foreshadows Christ, who became the song of mockers and was derided yet bore reproach to redeem (Psalm 69:11-12; Matthew 27:29-31).
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Lam 3:63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
- Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Ps 44:13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Job 30:1–9“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
- Jer 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
- Matt 27:39–44And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads
- Ps 35:15–16But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.
- 1 Cor 4:9–13For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
- Ps 137:3for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
- Ps 69:11–12I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.
- Neh 4:2–4before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- Ps 79:4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.
- Ps 123:3–4Have mercy on us, O LORD, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.
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