Text -- Lamentations 3:45 (NET)

3:45 You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 3:45

¹ tn Heb “offscouring and refuse.” The two nouns סְחִי וּמָאוֹס (sÿkhi 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.”

² tn Heb “in the midst of.”