In Lamentations 3:14, the speaker is mocked and scorned — the same humiliation expressed collectively in 3:45 as 'scum and refuse'.

In Lamentations 2:15, passersby mock Jerusalem with clapping and hissing — the same public scorn as being made offscouring.

In Lamentations 4:15, shouts of 'Depart! Unclean!' drive people away — the same rejection as being called offscouring.

Lamentations 4:14 describes people wandering blind and defiled, treated as untouchable — echoing the status of refuse.

Deuteronomy 28:13 promises being the head and not the tail — the opposite of being made refuse and despised.

Deuteronomy 28:37 warns of becoming a horror, proverb, and byword — the same scorn as being treated as offscouring among nations.

In 1 Corinthians 4:13, Paul uses the same Greek word for 'offscouring' — directly citing this verse to describe the apostles' humiliation.

Deuteronomy 28:44 describes becoming the tail, subordinate to foreigners — a curse of low status like being made refuse.