Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 3:14

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Lamentations 3:14

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Lamentations 3:14

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day." — Lamentations 3:14 (ASV)

I was a derision. —The personal experience of the prophet breaks through the succession of imagery. The arrows that pierced to the quick were the taunts of the mockers who derided him (Jeremiah 20:7). “Their song” .