Lam 3:45
Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day.
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
All 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? {by: Heb. by the way}
And 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}:
I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
They have wandered {as} blind {men} in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. {so...: or, in that they could not but touch}
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we {are} in, how Jerusalem {lieth} waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?