Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
God's people are portrayed as brought low to the condition of rejected matter that is swept away, treated as refuse in the midst of the surrounding nations. That lowness is disgrace among the nations, a reduction to what is cast off and cleared away. It came amid calamities for his country that Jeremiah had foreseen.
The verse stands in a chapter of sixty-six verses arranged as a Hebrew alphabetic acrostic in groups of three. Each group of three begins with the same letter, and the letters proceed in order through the alphabet. This acrostic pattern is not preserved in English translation.
God's people are portrayed as brought low to the condition of rejected matter that is swept away, treated as refuse in the midst of the surrounding nations. That lowness is disgrace among the nations, a reduction to what is cast off and cleared away. It came amid calamities for his country that Jeremiah had foreseen.
The verse stands in a chapter of sixty-six verses arranged as a Hebrew alphabetic acrostic in groups of three. Each group of three begins with the same letter, and the letters proceed in order through the alphabet. This acrostic pattern is not preserved in English translation.