Lamentations 3:45

3:45 You make us like filthy scum

in the estimation of the nations.


tn Heb “offscouring and refuse.” The two nouns סְחִי וּמָאוֹס (sÿkhi umaos) 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.”

tn Heb “in the midst of.”