Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations.
New American Standard Bible
In the midst of the peoples.
King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Holman Bible
among the peoples.
International Standard Version
You have reduced us to scum and garbage among the nations.
A Conservative Version
Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
American Standard Version
Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Amplified
You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).
Bible in Basic English
You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
Darby Translation
Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou didst set us the offscouring and despising in the midst of peoples.
King James 2000
You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Modern King James verseion
You have made us as the sweepings and garbage in the midst of the peoples.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast made us outcasts, and to be despised among the Heathen.
NET Bible
You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.
New Heart English Bible
You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
The Emphasized Bible
Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:45
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
44 You have covered yourself in a cloud {so that prayer cannot pass through}. 45 You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:13
[when we are] slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all [things], until now.
Deuteronomy 28:13
And Yahweh shall make you as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top [of the nations], and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I [am] commanding you {today} {and diligently observe them}.
Deuteronomy 28:37
And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there.
Deuteronomy 28:44
He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be [the] head, but you shall be [the] tail.
Lamentations 2:15
They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"
Lamentations 3:14
I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long.
Lamentations 4:14-15
They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.