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Lamentations 3:45 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.Lamentations 3:45 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:45 in context
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- offscouringçᵉchîyrefuseH5501 →
- refusemâʼôwçrefuseH3973 →
- midstqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- madesûwmto putH7760 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-54