You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
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You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
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Passages linked to Lamentations 3:45 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 4:13 Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
- Deuteronomy 28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail. You will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you today, to observe and to do,
- Deuteronomy 28:37 You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where Yahweh will lead you away.
- Deuteronomy 28:44 He will lend to you, and you won’t lend to him. He will be the head, and you will be the tail.
- Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
- Lamentations 3:14 I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
- Lamentations 4:14-15 They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments. “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain They say here that they were exposed to reproach,…
They say here that they were exposed to reproach, so as to become, as it were, the sweepings of the world. Some render סחי, sachi, “refuse;” some by other words; and some “filth:” But the word properly means sweepings or scraping’s, called by the Greeks περιψήματα. Paul says, that he and his associates were the offscouring (περιψήματα) of the world. (1 Corinthians 4:13.) He means that they were despised as offscourings or scrapings. The word is derived from sweeping. Whatever, then, is cleaned off by sweeping or scouring, that is, the filth of the house or the floor, is called סחי, sachi. What the Prophet had in view is not obscure; for he means that the degradation of the people was not hidden, but open Go all nations, as though God had erected a theater in Judea, and there exhibited a remarkable and an unusual example of his vengeance. To the same purpose is what he adds, —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:45 Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring…
Lam 3:45 Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Ver. 45. Thou hast made us as the offscouring.] Eradicationem, saith the Vulgate; rasuram potius, not the rooting out, but the scrapings off. As the Jews did rather extrinsecus radere peccata quam intrinsecus eradicare, {a} shave off their sins outwardly, than root them out from within: so God made them as despicable as the parings of a pavement, or of a leprous house.
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And refuse.] See 1Co 4:13. {See Trapp on "1Co 4:13"}
{a} Bern. - Exverras, scobes et ramenta. Excreamenta et excrements.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain That is, thou hast made us to all nations…
That is, thou hast made us to all nations extremely contemptible, so as they value us no more than the sweepings of their houses, or the most vile, refuse, and contemptible things imaginable.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Till the Lord look do: on, and behold from…
Till the Lord look do: on, and behold from heaven. Disperses and dissipates the cloud that was about him; shines forth and manifests himself, and looks favourably upon his people, and delivers them out of their troubles: this the prophet was in hope of, and was waiting for; but, till it came to pass, could have no rest and comfort. The Targum is,
"till he look and behold my injury;''
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as if he had regard to his own personal injury done him; but the former sense is best.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Omit “as.”
Omit “as.”
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain So the apostles were treated; but, instead of murmuring,…
So the apostles were treated; but, instead of murmuring, they rejoiced at it (Co1 4:13).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 45. For the thought cp. Nah_3:6; 1Co_4:13. It was…
45. For the thought cp. Nah_3:6; 1Co_4:13. It was exemplified in the Middle Ages in England and elsewhere (see Ivanhoe) and is still to be seen in Eastern Europe in the Judenhetze.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (45) In the midst of the people.—Literally, peoples: i.e.,…
(45) In the midst of the people.—Literally, peoples: i.e., the heathen nations of the world. A like phrase meets us in 1Co_4:13.
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