Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Lamentations 3:45 in other translations
| BSB | You have made us scum and refuse among the nations. |
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| WEB | You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples. |
| ASV | Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| YLT | Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples. |
| DARBY | Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples. |
| BBE | You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples. |
| Webster | Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. |
What does Lamentations 3:45 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:43-45
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.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54
The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.
Lamentations 3:45 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:45
- 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. They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
- 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 28:37
And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
- Lamentations 3:14
I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
- 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 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?
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Context
- Lamentations 3:44
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
- Lamentations 3:45
Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
- Lamentations 3:46
All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
Lamentations 3:45 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Raedura y abominación nos tornaste en medio de los pueblos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu nous as faits la balayure et le rebut au milieu des peuples. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du hast uns zum Kehricht und zum Ekel gemacht inmitten der Völker. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Eradicationem et abjectionem posuisti me in medio populorum. |