Lamentations 3:14 Cross References - Great

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

² and sayde before his brethren & the souldyers of Samaria: what do these impotent Iewes? wyll the hethen suffre them? shall they offre? shall they perfourme it in one daye? shal they make the stones whole agayne that are brought to dust, and brent? ³ And Tobiah the Ammonite was besyde him, and sayde: Though they buylde, yet yf a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe theyr stonye wall. ⁴ Heare (O thou oure God) for we are despised, turne their shame vpon their awne heade, & geue them ouer into despisynge in the lande of their captiuite.

¹ But now they that are younger then I, haue me in derysion: yee, euen they, whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my catell. ² The power & strength of their handes might do me no good: for the tyme is but lost among them. ³ For very misery and honger, they fled in to the wyldernesse horrible & waist, ⁴ pluckynge vp nettels amonge the busshes, and the Iuniper rotes for their meate. ⁵ And when they were dryuen forth, men cryed after them, as it had bene after a thefe. ⁶ Their dwelling was besyde foule brokes, yee, in the caues and dennes of the earth. ⁷ Amonge the busshes wente they aboute crying, and vnder the thornes they gathered them selues together. ⁸ They were the chyldren of fooles and vylaines, which are vexed out of the worlde. ⁹ Now am I their songe, and am become their ieastinge stock:

⁶ But as for me, I am a worme & no man: a very scorne of men & the outcast of the people. ⁷ All they that se me, laugh me to scorne: they shote out theyr lyppes, & shake the heade sayinge.

¹⁵ But in myne aduersyte they reioysed, and gathered them together: Yee the very abiectes came together agaynst me vnawares, makynge mowes at me, and ceassed not. ¹⁶ With the flatrers were busy mockers, which gnasshed vpon me with theyr teeth.

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

¹¹ I put on a sacke cloth also, & they iested vpon me. ¹² They that sitte in the gate, speake agaynst me, and the dronckardes make songes vpon me.

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

³ Haue mercy vpon vs, O Lorde, haue mercy vpon vs, for we are vtterly despysed. ⁴ Oure soule is fylled wyth the scornefull reprofe of the welthy, and wyth the despitefulnesse of the proude.

³ For they that led vs awaye captyue, requyred of vs then a songe & melody in our heuynes: synge vs one of the songes of Sion.

⁷ O Lorde, Yf I am disceaued, then hast thou disceaued me: thou hast dealt strongly, and hast preuayled, and makest me stronge agayne. All the daye longe am I despised, & laughed to scorne of euery man:

²⁷ O Israel, shalte thou not laugh him to scorne, when he is taken amonge theues. Yee, because of thy wordes that thou hast spoken agaynste hym, thou shalt be dryuen awaye.

⁶³ Thou seyst also theyr syttinge downe, and theyr rysinge vp: they make theyr songes of nothynge but of me.

³⁹ They that passed by, reuyled him, waggynge their heades, ⁴⁰ and sayinge: thou that destroydest the temple of God and dyddest bylde it in thre dayes, saue thy selfe If thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse. ⁴¹ Like wyse also the hye prestes, mocking him with the Scribes and elders sayde: ⁴² He saued other, him selfe can he not saue. If he be the kynge of Israel: let him now come doune from the crosse, & we will beleue him. ⁴³ He trusted in God, let him delyuer him now, yf he wyll haue him: for he sayde, I am the sonne of God. ⁴⁴ The theues also, which were crucifyed with him, cast the same in his tethe.

⁹ For me thynketh, that God hath set forth vs (which are the last Apostles) as it were men appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasynge stocke vnto the worlde, and to the Angels, and to men. ¹⁰ We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse thorowe Chryst. We weake, but ye are stronge. Ye are honorable, but we are despysed. ¹¹ Euen vnto this tyme we honger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffeted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellynge place, ¹² & laboure, worckynge wt oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse. We are persecuted, and suffer it. ¹³ We are euyll spoken of, & we praye. We are made as it were the fylthines of the worlde, the ofscowrynge of all thynges, euen vnto thys daye.