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Lamentations 3:43–45

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ס (Samek)

3:43You shrouded yourself93 with anger and then pursued us;

you killed without mercy.

3:44You shrouded yourself with a cloud

so that no prayer can get through.

3:45You make us like filthy scum94

in the estimation95 of the nations.

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Footnotes

  1. 93 Heb “covered.” The object must be supplied either from the next line (“covered yourself”) or from the end of this line (“covered us”).
  2. 94 Heb “offscouring and refuse.” The two nouns סְחִי וּמָאוֹס (sékhi uma’os) probably form a nominal hendiadys, in which the first noun functions as an adjective and the second retains its full nominal sense: “filthy refuse,” i.e., “filthy scum.”
  3. 95 Heb “in the midst of.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,

killing without pity;

you have wrapped yourself with a cloud

so that no prayer can pass through.

You have made us scum and garbage

among the peoples.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us;

you have slain without pity.

You have covered yourself with a cloud

so that no prayer can get through.

You have made us scum and refuse

among the nations.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us;

you have killed without compassion.

You have covered yourself with a cloud

so that no prayer can get through.

You have made us disgusting filth

among the peoples.

NLTNew Living Translation

“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down,

and slaughtered us without mercy.

You have hidden yourself in a cloud

so our prayers cannot reach you.

You have discarded us as refuse and garbage

among the nations.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us,

you have slain and not shown mercy.

You have covered yourself in a cloud

so that prayer cannot pass through.

You have made us scum and refuse

in the midst of the nations.

KJV 1900King James Version

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

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

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