Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
46All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt be a wonder, a prouerbe and a common talke among all people, whither the Lord shall carie thee.
Lamentations 2:15All that passe by the way, clap their hands at thee: they hisse and wagge their head vpon the daughter Ierusalem, saying, Is this the citie that men call, The perfection of beautie, and the ioye of the whole earth?
Lamentations 4:14They haue wandred as blinde men in the streetes, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not 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 →