3:45 You make us like filthy scum 1
in the estimation 2 of the nations.
פ (Pe)
3:46 All our enemies have gloated over us; 3
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.”
3 tn Heb “open wide their mouths.”