Lamentations 3:45
in Lamentations 3You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
KJV
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. Had given them up into the hands of the Gentiles, the Chaldeans, to be treated as the dirt of the streets, as the sweepings of a house; or the dross of metal; or anything that is vile, mean, and contemptible. The apostle seems to have some reference to this passage; and his words may be an illustration of it, 1Co 4:13.
This site's exposition
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us
on Lamentations 3:43-51
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied returns to the register of the first two chapters, the corporate voice now describing what the man described of himself. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through names the hardest complaint of the unit, prayer itself apparently blocked, and thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people states the community's status among the nations in the plainest terms the book uses. The unit closes where much of the book closes, mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people, weeping continuing till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven, grief that keeps speaking rather than resolving into silence.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| סְחִ֧י | sechi | scouring | H5501 → | |
| וּמָא֛וֹס | umaos | and refuse | H3973 → | |
| תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּ | tesimenu | you have made us | H7760 → | |
| בְּקֶ֥רֶב | bekerev | in [the] midst of | H7130 → | 227 times |
| הָעַמִּֽים׃ ס | haamim | the peoples | H5971 → | 1873 times |
סְחִ֧יscouring
sechiH5501 →
וּמָא֛וֹסand refuse
umaosH3973 →
תְּשִׂימֵ֖נוּyou have made us
tesimenuH7760 →
בְּקֶ֥רֶבin [the] midst of
bekerevH7130 →227 times
הָעַמִּֽים׃ סthe peoples
haamimH5971 →1873 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents,…
- 1 Kings 9:7–8
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…
- 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…
- Psalms 44:13–14
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Jeremiah 25:9
Through
Lamentations 2:15All 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…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
- Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.
- Jeremiah 18:16
Through
Deuteronomy 28:44He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:12–13
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow…
- Deuteronomy 28:12–13
Where this verse is studied
No study on the site is anchored to this verse yet.
Also on Lamentations 3: 6 studies that walk through this chapter ▾
- Acrostics: From Aleph to Taw
- The Fruit of the SpiritGalatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology.
- Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
- Lamentations — the Study Guide
- The Weeping Prophet — the Confessions of Jeremiah
- The Yoke
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).