Lamentations 3:45
Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.
Young's Literal Translation
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, So that prayer doth not pass through.
46Opened against us their mouth have all our enemies.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:37and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.
Lamentations 2:15Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed — and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'
Lamentations 4:14They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without [any] being able to touch their clothing,
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 →