Lamentations 3:45 “You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.”

Lamentations 3:45

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

World English Bible

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.

American Standard Version

Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

Darby Translation

Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Young's Literal Translation

Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

Bible in Basic English

You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.

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Cross references

“as”

1 Corinthians 4:13 Lamentations 3:14 Lamentations 2:15 Deuteronomy 28:13 Deuteronomy 28:37 Deuteronomy 28:44

1 Corinthians 4:13 · BSB

when we are slandered, we answer gently. Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world.

Lamentations 3:14 · BSB

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All 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?”

Deuteronomy 28:13 · BSB

The 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 28:37 · BSB

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:44 · BSB

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

46All our enemies open their mouths against us.

Read Lamentations 3