Lamentations 3:45
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45 You have made us filth and rubbish
among the peoples.(A)
1 Corinthians 4:13
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13 when slandered, we speak kindly. We have become like the rubbish of the world, the dregs of all things, to this very day.
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Lamentations 4:14-15
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14 Blindly they wandered through the streets,
so defiled with blood
that no one was able
to touch their garments.(A)
15 “Away! Unclean!” people shouted at them;
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
it was said among the nations,
“They shall stay here no longer.”(B)
Lamentations 3:14
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14 I have become the laughingstock of all my people,
the object of their taunt songs all day long.(A)
Lamentations 2:15
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15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”(A)
Deuteronomy 28:44
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44 They shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to them; they shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:37
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37 You shall become an object of horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:13
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13 The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be only at the top and not at the bottom—if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today by diligently observing them,
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