"Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people." — Lamentations 3:45

Lamentations 3:45 · KJV

“Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.”

— Lamentations 3:45

Verse 44

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that {our} prayer should not pass through.

Verse 46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Lamentations 3 — Context

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that {our} prayer should not pass through.

Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 4:13

Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, {and are} the offscouring of all things unto this day.

Lamentations 3:14

I was a derision to all my people; {and} their song all the day.

Lamentations 4:14-15

They have wandered {as} blind {men} in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. {so...: or, in that they could not but touch}

Lamentations 2:15

All 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} call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? {by: Heb. by the way}

Deuteronomy 28:37

And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

Deuteronomy 28:44

He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Deuteronomy 28:13

And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do {them}: