Lamentations 3:45
As something loathsome and rejected hast thou rendered us in the midst of the people.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.
46Wide have all our enemies opened against us their mouth.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word, among all the nations whither the Lord will lead thee.
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by [this] way clap their hands on account of thee; they hiss and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem: [saying,] Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty. The joy for all the earth?
Lamentations 4:14They wandered about blindly in the streets, they became defiled with blood; so that men were not able to touch 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 →