Lamentations 3:45
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.”
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BSBPD
“You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:45 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:13The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
- Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
- Deuteronomy 28:44He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- Lamentations 4:14They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.
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