Lamentations 3:45 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:45

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

KJV

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ASV

Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

WEB

You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

YLT

Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

DBT

Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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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.
Nehemiah 2:17
Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
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?
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 28:44
He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

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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," Ps 10:11;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): " Thou hast made us as the off-scouring, or scrapings, of the first floor, which are thrown to the dunghill." This St. Paul refers to in his account of the sufferings of the apostles. 13 , We are made as the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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