Lamentations 3:30

3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; ¹ 

let him have his fill of insults.

Lamentations 3:45

3:45 You make us like filthy scum ² 

in the estimation ³  of the nations.

[3:30]  ¹ tn Heb “to the smiter.”

[3:45]  ² 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.”

[3:45]  ³ tn Heb “in the midst of.”