I have become the laughingstock of all people, ¹  their mocking song ²  all day long. ³ 

biblegateway Lam 3:14

I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

I am a laughingstock to all my people, mocked by their songs all day long.

I have become a laughingstock to all my people. All day long they make fun of me with their songs.

biblegateway Lam 3:14

I became the laughing-stock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.

bibleoremus Lam 3:14

I have become the laughingstock of all my people, the object of their taunt-songs all day long.

I have become a laughing-stock to all nations, the butt of their mocking songs all day.

biblegateway Lam 3:14

I have become the ridicule of all my people––Their taunting song all the day.

I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

biblegateway Lam 3:14

I have become the laughingstock of all people, ¹  their mocking song ²  all day long. ³ 

¹ tc The MT reads עַמִּי (’ammi, “my people”). Many medieval Hebrew mss read עַמִּים (’ammim, “peoples”), as reflected also in Syriac Peshitta. The internal evidence (contextual congruence) favors the variant עַמִּים (’ammim, “peoples”).

² tn The noun נְגִינָה (nÿginah) is a musical term: (1) “music” played on strings (Isa 38:20; Lam 5:14), (2) a technical musical term (Pss 4:1; 6:1; 54:1; 55:1; 67:1; 76:1; Hab 3:19) and (3) “mocking song” (Pss 69:13; 77:7; Job 30:9; Lam 3:14). The parallelism with שׂחוֹק “laughingstock” indicates that the latter category of meaning is in view.

³ tn Heb “all of the day.” The idiom כָּל־הַיּוֹם (kol-hayyom, “all day”) means “continually” (Gen 6:5; Deut 28:32; 33:12; Pss 25:5; 32:3; 35:28; 37:26; 38:7, 13; 42:4, 11; 44:9, 16, 23; 52:3; 56:2, 3, 6; 71:8, 15, 24; 72:15; 73:14; 74:22; 86:3; 88:18; 89:17; 102:9; 119:97; Prov 21:26; 23:17; Isa 28:24; 51:13; 52:5; 65:2, 5; Jer 20:7, 8; Lam 1:13; 3:3, 62; Hos 12:2).