Lamentations 3:45
And be cast off. 1 Thou hast set us alone 1 In the midst of the nations. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud 1 Because of prayer, 1 That I might be blind, 1
46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be there for a wonder, and a parable, and a tale, among all the nations, to which the Lord thy God shall carry thee away.
Lamentations 2:15All that go by the way 1 Have clapped their hands at thee; 1 They have hissed and shaken their head 1 At the daughter of Jerusalem. 1 Is this the city, they say, 1 The crown of joy of all the earth? 1
Lamentations 4:14Her watchmen staggered in the streets, 1 They were defiled with blood in their weakness, 1 They touched their raiment with it. 1
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 →