Lamentations 3:45
Offscouring and refuse, dost thou make us, in the midst of the peoples.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
In Context
44Thou hast screened thyself with the clouds, that prayer, should not pass through;
46With their mouth, opened wide over us, [stand] all our foes.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37Thus shalt thou become a horror, a byword, and a mockery, among all the peoples whither Yahweh thy God will drive thee.
Lamentations 2:15All passing by, have clapped, over thee, their hands, have hissed and wagged their head over the daughter of Jerusalem,—[saying], Is, this, the city, of which men used to say—The perfection of beauty! A joy to the whole earth!
Lamentations 4:14They have wandered—blind—in the streets, have defiled themselves with blood; so that men may 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 →