Lamentations 3:45 (GNV)

Passage

Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:43 Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.

Lamentations 3:44 Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.

Lamentations 3:45 Thou hast made vs as the ofscouring and refuse in the middes of the people.

Lamentations 3:46 All our enemies haue opened their mouth against vs.

Lamentations 3:47 Feare, and a snare is come vpon vs with desolation and destruction.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "hast", "ofscouring", "refuse", "middes", and "people". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "hast", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 44's "Thou hast couered thy selfe with a..." into verse 46's "All our enemies haue opened their mouth...", so "thou" and "hast" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "hast" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.