Lamentations 3:45
You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
46The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.
Lamentations 2:15All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Lamentations 4:14They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →