Lamentations 3:45
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
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In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
46“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37You will become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword amongst all the peoples where the LORD will lead you away.
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Lamentations 4:14They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t 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 →