Lamentations 3:45

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.
  • Deut 28:13 : 13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
  • Deut 28:44 : 44 He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.
  • Lam 4:14-15 : 14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men. 15 Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

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    10 Because of this we are turned back by the attacker: those who have hate for us take our goods for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.

    12 You let your people go for nothing; your wealth is not increased by their price.

    13 You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

    14 Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples.

    15 My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

    16 Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

    17 All this has come on us, but still we have kept you in our memory; and we have not been false to your word.

  • 22 But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

  • Lam 3:42-44
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    43 Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

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  • 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shushan-eduth. Michtam. Of David. For teaching. When he was fighting against Aram-naharaim and Aramzobah, when Joab came back, and put twelve thousand of the Edomites to death, in the Valley of Salt.> God, you have put us away from you, you have sent us in all directions, you have been angry; O be turned to us again.

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 13 When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

  • 46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

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    3 Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us.

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    24 Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

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    6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

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  • 15 For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.

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  • 1 Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

  • 44 You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth.

  • 6 But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.

  • 7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

  • 10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

  • 3 At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions.

  • 3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

  • 7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.

  • 13 Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

  • 6 He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

  • 20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.

  • 20 Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?

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  • 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.

  • 9 And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

  • 15 O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

  • 17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • 2 See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.