Lamentations 3:45

Modern

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

Traditional

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

Literal

You have made us offscouring and refuse in the midst of the nations.

Latin

Eradicationem et abjectionem posuisti me in medio populorum.

Hebrew

English

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

1 Corinthians 4:13
…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 4:14–15
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
Deuteronomy 28:44
He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
Deuteronomy 28:13
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.
Lamentations 2:15
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?”
Lamentations 3:14
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.