King James Version
Lamentations 3:45 in the King James Version says “Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.”
Lamentations 3:45 · KJV
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Thou hast made”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“in the midst”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
“of the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
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