Lamentations 3:45
You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).
1 Corinthians 4:13
When we are slandered, we try to be conciliatory and answer softly. We have become like the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
Deuteronomy 28:13
The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.
Deuteronomy 28:44
He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They scoff and shake their heads
At the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that was called
‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of all the earth’?”
Lamentations 3:14
I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
Lamentations 4:14-15
They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.
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I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,
And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.
All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They scoff and shake their heads
At the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that was called
‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of all the earth’?”
They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.