44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. 46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3:44–46
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Psalms 79:3–5
3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. 4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us. 5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn lik…
Psalms 44:13–15
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. 14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. 15 All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
Greek Daniel 3:32–34
32 You delivered us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful rebels, and to an unjust king who is the most wicked in all the world. (WEB) 33 And now we can’t open our mouth. Shame and reproach have come on your servants and those who worship you. (WEB) 34 Don’t utterly deliv… (WEB)
Lamentations 5:21–22
21 Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old, 22 unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
Psalms 80:5–7
5 You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears. 6 You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us. 7 Restore us, O God of Hosts, and cause Your face to shine upon us, that we may be saved.
Psalms 89:38–40
38 Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one. 39 You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust. 40 You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.
Job 17:5–7
5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail. 6 He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit. 7 My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
Prayer of Azariah 1:9–11
9 And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in all the world. (KJV) 10 And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that wor… (KJV)
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