Lamentations 3:45 meaning and explanation
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Lamentations 3:45, Berean Standard Bible
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These words belong to the prayer that begins at verse 42, where the community confesses its sin and describes how God's judgment has felt since Jerusalem fell to Babylon in 586 BC. The speaker voices the shame of survivors who have become objects of contempt among the surrounding nations, treated as something to be swept away.
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