Lamentations 3:4

ב (Bet)

3:4 He has made my mortal skin ¹  waste away;

he has broken my bones.

Lamentations 3:45

3:45 You make us like filthy scum ² 

in the estimation ³  of the nations.

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “my flesh and my skin.” The two nouns joined with ו (vav), בְשָׂרִי וְעוֹרִי (basari vÿ’ori, “my flesh and my skin”), form a nominal hendiadys: the first functions adjectivally and the second retains its full nominal sense: “my mortal skin.”

[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.”