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God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:45

In 11 translations

BSB
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
KJV
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
WEB
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
ASV
Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
LSV
Outcast and refuse You make us || In the midst of the peoples.
YLT
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
DBY
Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
DRC
Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
GNV
Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
JPS
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
LXXE
and be cast off. Ain. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
סְחִ֧י וּמָא֛וֹס תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ בְּקֶ֥רֶב הָעַמִּֽים׃
LXX-Br
καμμύσαι με καὶ ἀπωσθῆναι. ΑΙΝ. Ἔθηκας ἡμᾶς ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λαῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lamentations 4:14–15They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments. “Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the…
  • Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
  • Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
  • 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?”
  • 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.

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