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Lamentations 3:45

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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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  1. 1 Corinthians 4:13Rank 1 from verse 45
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    13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

  2. Deuteronomy 28:13Rank 2 from verse 45
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    13And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

  3. Deuteronomy 28:37Rank 3 from verse 45
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    37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

  4. Deuteronomy 28:44Rank 4 from verse 45
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    44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

  5. Lamentations 2:15Rank 5 from verse 45
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    15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

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Lamentations 3:45

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

made

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Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

offscouring

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That which is rejected or despised as refuse.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

midst

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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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3:37¶ Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

3:39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

3:41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

3:42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

3:43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

3:44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

3:45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

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3:46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

3:47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

3:48Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

3:49Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

3:50Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

3:51Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

3:52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

3:53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

3:54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

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