Lamentations 3:45
You have made us waste and refuse to the nations all around.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44You have wrapped yourself with a cloud that no prayer can penetrate.
46All our enemies open their mouths to criticize us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37You will be something that horrifies all the nations where you've been exiled by the Lord. They will laugh at you and ridicule you.
Lamentations 2:15Everyone who passes by mock you, clapping their hands, hissing and shaking their heads in scorn at the Daughter of Jerusalem. “Is this really the city that people called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” they ask.
Lamentations 4:14They wandered like blind men through the streets, made unclean by this blood, so no one would touch their clothes.
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 →