Lamentations 3:45

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You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now.
  • Deut 28:13 : 13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the LORD will drive you.
  • Deut 28:44 : 44 They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.
  • Lam 4:14-15 : 14 נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments. 15 ס(Samek) People cry to them,“Turn away! You are unclean! Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!” So they have fled and wander about; but the nations say,“They may not stay here any longer.”

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