Lamentations 3:14 Meaning and Explanation

Added to the physical anguish is the wound of mockery, and from his own people no less. He has become 'a derision,' a figure of scorn, and worse, 'their song all the day' — they make up taunting songs about his misery and sing them without ceasing. To be laughed at by strangers is hard; to be the daily joke of one's own people cuts deeper.

There is a foreshadowing here that Christians have long noticed. The Man of sorrows too became a derision, surrounded by those who wagged their heads and mocked, the subject of cruel songs in his hour of suffering. The poem's sufferer, scorned by his own, stands in a long line that reaches its fullness at the cross. Shared scorn is part of what it means to enter the fellowship of suffering.