Bible verse
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Lamentations 3:45 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 3.
41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
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.
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
KJV
Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
ASV
Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
ERV
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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