“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
“He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.
I have become the laughingstock of all peoples, the object of their taunts all day long.
When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them. I am the talk of those who sit in the gate, and the drunkards make songs about me.
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing; like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.
I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
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