Lamentations 3:45

New International Version

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

Cross References

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”

Lamentations 3:14

I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

Lamentations 3:46

“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide 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.

Deuteronomy 28:13

The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

Deuteronomy 28:37

You will become a thing of horror, a byword and an object of ridicule among all the peoples where the Lord will drive you.

Deuteronomy 28:44

They will lend to you, but you will not lend to them. They will be the head, but you will be the tail.