Lamentations 3:45 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁵Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

Lamentations 3:45 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 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. …
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:
Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 42-54)

It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh; for great pains must be taken with a troubled spirit to bring it into temper. I. They confess the righ…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 45)

43-45. covered--namely, thyself (so La 3:44), so as not to see and pity our calamities, for even the most cruel in seeing a sad spectacle are moved to pity. Compare as to God “hiding His face,” Psa 10:11; 22:25.