Lamentations 3:45

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Lamentations 3:43–47 · Berean Standard Bible

43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.

47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Lamentations 3:14

I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Lamentations 4:14

They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

Lamentations 4:15

“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”

Deuteronomy 28:13

The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:44

He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.

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.