Lamentations 3:45

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You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

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  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 When we are slandered, we respond gently. We have become like the scum of the earth, the refuse of all, even until now.
  • Deut 28:13 : 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will only go upwards and not downwards, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today, to observe and to do them.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You will become an object of horror, a byword, and a taunt among all the peoples to which the LORD will drive you.
  • Deut 28:44 : 44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, 'Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?'
  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people; their mocking song all day long.
  • Lam 4:14-15 : 14 They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments. 15 “Go away! You are unclean!” people shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” When they fled and wandered, the nations said, “They can stay here no longer.”

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    9In God we make our boast all day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

    10Yet You have rejected and humiliated us, and You no longer go out with our armies.

    11You make us retreat before the enemy, and those who hate us have plundered us for themselves.

    12You delivered us like sheep to be eaten and have scattered us among the nations.

    13You sold Your people for nothing and made no profit from their sale.

    14You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.

    15You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of heads among the peoples.

    16All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.

    17This is from the taunts of those who insult and revile, from the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

  • 22Unless you have utterly rejected us and are exceedingly angry with us.

  • Lam 3:42-44
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    42We have transgressed and rebelled, and You have not forgiven.

    43You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain without pity.

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  • 3Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

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  • 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

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    3Show us mercy, O LORD, show us mercy, for we have had more than enough of scorn.

    4Our souls have had more than enough of the mocking of the complacent, and the contempt of the arrogant.

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  • 6You have fed them with the bread of tears; you have made them drink tears in abundance.

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    24Awake, Lord! Why do You sleep? Rouse Yourself; do not reject us forever.

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    6No one calls on your name or rouses themselves to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have melted us away in the grip of our sins.

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  • 15Look, I have made you small among the nations, despised among mankind.

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  • 10For I eat ashes as my food and mix my drink with tears.

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  • 13Your words against me have been harsh, says the Lord. But you ask, 'What have we spoken against you?

  • 6He has made me a byword among the peoples, and I have become one at whom they spit.

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  • 20Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us for so long?

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