Lamentations 3:45
Hebrew Bible
44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer could get through. 45 You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations. 46 פ (Pe) All our enemies have gloated over us; 47 panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Date: 5th Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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1 Corinthians 4:13
New Testament
12 We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure, 13 when people lie about us, we answer in a friendly manner. We are the world’s dirt and scum, even now. 14 I am not writing these things to shame you, but to correct you as my dear children.
Date: 55-57 C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Notes and References
"... Significantly, as Yahweh answers him, Job engages in expressions of humility and self-deprecation (Job 40:3–5; 42:1–6). Similar language is used to describe the self-perception of the people amidst their suffering in Lamentations 3:45, the only verse of Lamentations to find quotation (or, at the very least, allusion) in the New Testament, appearing almost verbatim in 1 Corinthians 4:13. Theodical concerns are thus shared across the entire canon ..."
Peters, Christopher William
Tears of Anger: The Compositional Function and Theology of Imprecation in the Book of Lamentations
(p. 231) John W. Rawlings School of Divinity, 2023
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