Lamentations 3:45
You have made us as the waste and refuse in the midst of the people.
Updated King James Version
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, that our prayer should not pass through.
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations where the LORD shall lead you.
Lamentations 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Lamentations 4:14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could 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 →