Lamentations 3:45

World English Bible (2000)

You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 4:13 : 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
  • Deut 28:13 : 13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do [them],
  • Deut 28:37 : 37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where Yahweh shall lead you away.
  • Deut 28:44 : 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
  • Lam 2:15 : 15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
  • Lam 3:14 : 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
  • Lam 4:14-15 : 14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments. 15 Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

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    9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

    10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

    11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

    12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

    13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

    14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

    15 All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

    16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

    17 All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

  • 22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

  • Lam 3:42-44
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    42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

    43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

    44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

  • 1 God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.

  • 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

  • Ps 123:3-4
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    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

    4 Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

  • 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

  • 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 6 You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

  • Ps 44:24-25
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    24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

    25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

  • Ps 89:38-39
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    38 But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

    39 You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6 For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

    7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.

  • 1 God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

  • 1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.

  • 44 You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.

  • 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

  • 7 Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.

  • 10 Because of your indignation and your wrath, for you have taken me up, and thrown me away.

  • 3 At the noise of the thunder, the peoples have fled. When you lift yourself up, the nations are scattered.

  • 3 Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.

  • 7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

  • 13 "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

  • 6 "But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • 20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • 20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time?

  • 33 However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

  • 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

  • 9 "Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

  • 15 Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is this day. Behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand before you because of this."

  • 17 You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

  • 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • 2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.