Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Revised Version 1895
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 our prayer should not pass through.
46all our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither the LORD shall lead thee away.
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at thee; 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, that are polluted with blood, so that men cannot 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 →