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# a laughingstock to all my people
The word "all" is a generalization, meaning "most." Alternate translation: "a laughingstock to most of my people" or "someone whom all my people mock" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-hyperbole]])
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# laughingstock
someone whom many people mock
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# their taunting song
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Jeremiah speaks of being the person about whom they sing their taunt song as if he were the song itself. Alternate translation: "and I am the one about whom they sing taunting songs" or "and they sing taunting songs about me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])