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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:45 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast made
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
us as the offscouring
cchiy (Hebrew #5501)
refuse (as swept off)
KJV usage: offscouring.
Pronounce: seh-khee'
Origin: from 5500
and refuse
ma'owc (Hebrew #3973)
refuse
KJV usage: refuse.
Pronounce: maw-oce'
Origin: from 3988
in the midst
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
of the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
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Cross References

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Lam. 3:14• 14I am become a derision to all my people; their song all the day. (Lam. 3:14)
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Lam. 2:15• 15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? (Lam. 2:15)
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Lam. 4:14‑15• 14They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
 15They cried unto them, Depart! Unclean! Depart! depart, touch not! When they fled away, and wandered about, it was said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there. (Lam. 4:14‑15)
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Deut. 28:13,37,44• 13And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to keep and to do them,
 37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee.
 44He shall lend to thee, but thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. (Deut. 28:13,37,44)
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1 Cor. 4:13• 13insulted, we entreat: we are become as the offscouring of the world, the refuse of all, until now. (1 Cor. 4:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.