Lamentations 3:45
Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse in the midst of the people.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
46Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be lost, as a proverb and a byword to all people, among whom the Lord shall bring thee in.
Lamentations 2:15Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?
Lamentations 4:14Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts.
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 →