Lamentations 3:45
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New International Version (©2011)
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You have discarded us as refuse and garbage among the nations.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You have made us disgusting filth among the peoples.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You have reduced us to scum and garbage among the nations.

NET Bible (©2006)
You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
You made us the scum and trash of the nations.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

American King James Version
You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people.

American Standard Version
Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

English Revised Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring 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 midst of the peoples.

Young's Literal Translation
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou 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, 1 Corinthians 4:13.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

45. So the apostles were treated; but, instead of murmuring, they rejoiced at it (1Co 4:13).

Pe.

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God's Justice
…44You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the middle of the people. 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. …

1 Corinthians 4:13 when we are slandered, we answer kindly. We have become the scum of the earth, the garbage of the world--right up to this moment.
Lamentations 3:46 "All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.