I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
Parallel translations
- WEB I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
- BSB I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- 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 20:7O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.
- Lam 3:63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
- Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
- Ps 44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
- Job 30:1–9But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
- Jer 48:27For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.
- Matt 27:39–44And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,
- Ps 35:15–16But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
- 1 Cor 4:9–13For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
- Ps 137:3For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
- Ps 69:11–12I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
- Neh 4:2–4And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
- Ps 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
- Ps 123:3–4Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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