Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 3:14

14 I was a derision to all my people, and their song all the day .

Though some think the Prophet speakes this of himself, yet, considering he hath all along spoken in the name of the people it is not probable, which makes a difficulty, how the people could be a derision to themselves? It seemeth therefore ill translated, and that it should have been, I was a derision to all people, leaving out my, that is, to all forreigners, to whom the Iews were made a derision and an hissing, there onely wants the last letter in [non-Latin text not transcribed], and it is well observed by the learned Authour of the English Annotations that the like defect is to be found as to the same word, 2 Sam. 24.43. compared with Psal. 18.43. so that [illegible: 1 letter] is not a Pronoun affix (upon which supposal our Translators go) but one of the Letters that form the plural number, the other being left out, and [non-Latin text not transcribed] put for [non-Latin text not transcribed].

Marginal references: Jer. 20.7.; Job 30.9 Psal. 69.12. Ver. 63.