Lam 3:14 | NET2full | STEP | I have become the laughingstock of all people , their mocking song all day long.

Lamentations 3:14

14 I have become the laughingstock of all people, ^{▼▼tc The MT reads עַמִּי (ʿammi, “my people”). Many medieval Hebrew mss read עַמִּים (ʿammim, “peoples”), as reflected also in the Syriac Peshitta. The internal evidence (contextual congruence) favors the variant עַמִּים (ʿammim, “peoples”).}
their mocking song ^{▼▼tn The noun נְגִינָה (neginah) 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) a “mocking song” (Pss 69:13; 77:7; Job 30:9; Lam 3:14). The parallelism with שְׂחֹק (sekhoq, “laughingstock”) indicates that the latter category of meaning is in view.} all day long. ^{▼▼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).}