Now I am mocked by their songs;(A)
I have become an object of scorn to them.

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“And now those young men mock me(A) in song;(B)
    I have become a byword(C) among them.

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12 Those who sit at the city gate talk about me,
and drunkards make up songs about me.(A)

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12 Those who sit at the gate(A) mock me,
    and I am the song of the drunkards.(B)

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14 I am a laughingstock(A) to all my people,[a]
mocked by their songs(B) all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:14 Some Hb mss, LXX, Vg; other Hb mss, Syr read all peoples

14 I became the laughingstock(A) of all my people;(B)
    they mock me in song(C) all day long.

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