Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. New Living Translation You have discarded us as refuse and garbage among the nations. English Standard Version You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples. Berean Standard Bible You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. King James Bible Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. New King James Version You have made us an offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. New American Standard Bible You have made us mere refuse and rubbish In the midst of the peoples. NASB 1995 You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. NASB 1977 Mere offscouring and refuse Thou hast made us In the midst of the peoples. Legacy Standard Bible You have made us mere scum and refuse In the midst of the peoples. Amplified Bible You have made us scum and refuse Among the peoples (Gentile nations). Christian Standard Bible You have made us disgusting filth among the peoples. Holman Christian Standard Bible You have made us disgusting filth among the peoples. American Standard Version Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. Contemporary English Version You allowed nations to treat us like garbage; English Revised Version Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. GOD'S WORD® Translation You made us the scum and trash of the nations. Good News Translation You have made us the garbage dump of the world. International Standard Version You have reduced us to scum and garbage among the nations. Majority Standard Bible You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. NET Bible You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations. New Heart English Bible You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples. Webster's Bible Translation Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. World English Bible You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionOutcast and refuse You make us "" In the midst of the peoples. Young's Literal Translation Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples. Smith's Literal Translation Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSamech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people. Catholic Public Domain Version SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out. New American Bible You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples. New Revised Standard Version You have made us filth and rubbish among the peoples. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThou hast made us uprooted and despised among the peoples. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated You have caused us to be uprooted and rejected among the nations OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples. Brenton Septuagint Translation and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us alone in the midst of the nations. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context God's Justice…44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. 45You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. 46All our enemies open their mouths against us.… Cross References Psalm 44:13-14 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. / You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. Jeremiah 51:51 “We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.” Isaiah 64:6 Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind. Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you. Ezekiel 5:14-15 I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by. / So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken. 1 Kings 9:7 then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. Jeremiah 24:9 I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them. 2 Chronicles 7:20 then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. Psalm 79:4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us. Jeremiah 29:18 I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them. Ezekiel 22:4 you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands. 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. Romans 9:21-23 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use? / What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction? / What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory— 1 Peter 2:7-8 To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,” / and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed. Matthew 5:13 You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. Treasury of Scripture You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people. as Lamentations 3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day. Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? Lamentations 4:14,15 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments… Jump to Previous Mere Midst Nations Offscouring Peoples Refuse Scum Use WasteJump to Next Mere Midst Nations Offscouring Peoples Refuse Scum Use WasteLamentations 3 1. The prophet bewails his own calamities22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope 37. He acknowledges God's justice 55. He prays for deliverance 64. And vengeance on his enemies You have made us This phrase acknowledges the sovereignty of God in the circumstances faced by the people of Judah. The Hebrew root here is "עָשָׂה" (asah), meaning "to make" or "to do." It reflects the understanding that God is actively involved in the affairs of nations and individuals. Historically, this is a recognition of divine judgment, where the people of Judah see their plight as a direct result of God's will, emphasizing the belief in God's ultimate authority and control over human destiny. scum and refuse among the nations Hebrew You have made usתְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ (tə·śî·mê·nū) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common plural Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set scum סְחִ֧י (sə·ḥî) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5501: Offscouring and refuse וּמָא֛וֹס (ū·mā·’ō·ws) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3973: Refuse among בְּקֶ֥רֶב (bə·qe·reḇ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 7130: The nearest part, the center the nations. הָעַמִּֽים׃ (hā·‘am·mîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock Links Lamentations 3:45 NIVLamentations 3:45 NLT Lamentations 3:45 ESV Lamentations 3:45 NASB Lamentations 3:45 KJV Lamentations 3:45 BibleApps.com Lamentations 3:45 Biblia Paralela Lamentations 3:45 Chinese Bible Lamentations 3:45 French Bible Lamentations 3:45 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Lamentations 3:45 You have made us an off-scouring (Lam. 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