Lamentations 3:45
SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
46PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you will become nothing but a proverb and a fable to all the peoples to whom the Lord will lead you.
Lamentations 2:15SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
Lamentations 4:14NUN. They have wandered in the streets like the blind; they have been defiled with blood. And when they were not able, they held their garments.
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 →