KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Lamentations 3:44–45
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Lamentations 3:44
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloud, that our prayer should not passe through.
Lamentations 3:45
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
45*Thou hast made vs as the offscouring and refuse in the middest of the people.
- 1.Cor.4.13.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:44
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A visible mass of vapour in the sky; figuratively, a covering or multitude.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From one side or end to another; by means of; throughout; or because of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:45
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
offscouring
What is rejected, despised, or treated as vile, like refuse scoured away.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The middle or central part; the position among or surrounded by others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 44
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Open the full verse study8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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Open the full verse study13Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of hosts:
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Open the full verse study2Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
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Open the full verse study1THEN said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
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Open the full verse study11Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.
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Open the full verse study4O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
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Open the full verse study13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
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Open the full verse study13And 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:
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Open the full verse study37And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.
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Open the full verse study44He 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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Open the full verse study15All 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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Open the full verse study14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Open the full verse study14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15They 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.
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