“laughingstock” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word laughingstock appears 3 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 3 matching verses are shown below.
- Ecclesiasticus 42:11 Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at anytime she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.
- Jeremias 20:7 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me.
- Habacuc 1:10 And their prince shall triumph over kings, and princes shall be his laughingstock: and he shall laugh at every strong hold, and shall cast up a mount, and shall take it.