the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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THE MESSAGE
Lamentations 4:14
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Blind, they stumbled in the streets,defiled by this blood,so that no one daredto touch their garments.
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.
They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood, Such that no one could touch their garments.
They wandered in the streets as if they were blind. They were dirty with blood, so no one would touch their clothes.
They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
They haue wandred as blinde men in the streetes, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not touch their garments.
They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.
They wandered, blind, in the streets;They were defiled with bloodSo that no one could touch their garments.
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Yes, her prophets and priests were covered with blood; no one would come near them, as they wandered from street to street.
They wander in the streets like the blind; they are so polluted with blood that nobody is able even to touch their clothing.
They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
The prophets and priests walked around like blind men in the streets. They had become dirty with blood. No one could even touch their clothes because they were dirty.
Her princes wander in her streets, they wallow in blood, so that no one could touch their garments.
Her leaders wandered through the streets as though blind, so stained with blood that no one would touch them.
They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.
they reeled blind in the open places. They are defiled with blood, so that not any are able to touch their garments.
So that these blynde men wete stomblinge in the stretes, and stayned themselues wt bloude, which els wolde touche no bloudy cloth.
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.
They haue wandred as blind men in the streetes, they haue polluted themselues with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
As blinde men went, they stumbling in the streetes, and stayned them selues with blood, insomuch that the heathen woulde in no wyse touche their garmentes.
NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment with it.
They wander as blind men in the streets, that are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.
Nun. Blynde men erryden in stretis, thei weren defoulid in blood; and whanne thei miyten not go, thei helden her hemmes.
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
נ (Nun)
They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.
They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared touch them.
They walked as blind men through the streets. They were made unclean with blood so that no one could touch their clothing.
Blindly they wandered through the streets, so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.
They have wandered - blind - in the streets, have defiled themselves with blood; so that men may not touch their garments.
Nun. They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they were defiled with blood: and when they could not help walking in it, they held up their skirts.
They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.
They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without [any] being able to touch their clothing,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
have wandered: Deuteronomy 28:28, Deuteronomy 28:29, Isaiah 29:10-12, Isaiah 56:10, Isaiah 59:9-11, Micah 3:6, Micah 3:7, Matthew 15:14, Ephesians 4:18
they have polluted: Numbers 35:33, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 2:34
so that men could not touch: or, in that they could not but touch, Numbers 19:16, Hosea 4:2
Reciprocal: Numbers 19:11 - toucheth the dead Isaiah 43:27 - and thy Isaiah 59:10 - grope Jeremiah 26:8 - the priests Jeremiah 26:19 - Thus Lamentations 3:45 - as Ezekiel 9:9 - and the land Zephaniah 1:17 - they shall Matthew 23:35 - upon Hebrews 11:37 - were slain
Cross-References
God spoke to Cain: "Why this tantrum? Why the sulking? If you do well, won't you be accepted? And if you don't do well, sin is lying in wait for you, ready to pounce; it's out to get you, you've got to master it."
Cain said to God , "My punishment is too much. I can't take it! You've thrown me off the land and I can never again face you. I'm a homeless wanderer on Earth and whoever finds me will kill me."
God told him, "No. Anyone who kills Cain will pay for it seven times over." God put a mark on Cain to protect him so that no one who met him would kill him.
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
"As for those among you still alive, I'll give them over to fearful timidity—even the rustle of a leaf will throw them into a panic. They'll run here and there, back and forth, as if running for their lives even though no one is after them, tripping and falling over one another in total confusion. You won't stand a chance against an enemy. You'll perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will eat you up. Any who are left will slowly rot away in the enemy lands. Rot. And all because of their sins, their sins compounded by their ancestors' sins.
"In such cases the avenger has a right to kill the murderer when he meets him—he can kill him on the spot.
Hurry with your answer, God ! I'm nearly at the end of my rope. Don't turn away; don't ignore me! That would be certain death. If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice, I'll go to sleep each night trusting in you. Point out the road I must travel; I'm all ears, all eyes before you. Save me from my enemies, God — you're my only hope! Teach me how to live to please you, because you're my God. Lead me by your blessed Spirit into cleared and level pastureland.
The evil of bad people leaves them out in the cold; the integrity of good people creates a safe place for living.
The wicked are edgy with guilt, ready to run off even when no one's after them; Honest people are relaxed and confident, bold as lions.
The source of all this doom to Jerusalem and Judah was God 's anger. God turned his back on them as an act of judgment. Zedekiah revolted against the king of Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar set out for Jerusalem with a full army. He set up camp and sealed off the city by building siege mounds around it. He arrived on the ninth year and tenth month of Zedekiah's reign. The city was under siege for nineteen months (until the eleventh year of Zedekiah).
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets,.... That is, the false prophets and wicked priests; and may be understood either literally, that when the city was taken, and they fled, they were like blind men, and knew not which way to go to make their escape, but wandered from place to place, and could find no way out; or spiritually, though they pretended to great light and knowledge, yet were as blind men, surrounded with the darkness of ignorance and error, and were blind leaders of the blind:
they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments; or, "could not but touch it with their garments" c; or, "might not" d; it was not lawful for them to do it: the sense is either, that, which way soever these men took to make their escape, they found so many dead carcasses in the streets, and such a profusion of blood by them, that they could not but touch it with their garments; or being besmeared with it, were so defiled, that others might not touch them, even their garments; or these men had defiled themselves with the shedding of the blood of righteous persons; so that they were odious to men, and they shunned them as they would do anything that by the law rendered them in a ceremonious sense unclean, and therefore said as follows:
c בלא יוכלו יגעו בלבושיהם "quem non possunt, quin tangent vestimentis suis", "Junius & Tremellius. d "Tangebant eum (nempe sanguinem) vestibus eorum quem non potuerunt", i.e. "jure", Gataker.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They have wandered - God’s ministers, consecrated to His service, wandered through the city blinded by the insatiable lust of slaughter. It was a pollution to touch their garments.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. They have wandered as blind men in the streets — Rather, "They ran frantic through the streets, they were stained with blood." This was in their pretended zeal for their cause. Bishop Bonner, who was at the head of those sanguinary executions in England, was accustomed to buffet the poor Protestants, when on their examinations they were too powerful for him in argument: -
"He proved his doctrine orthodox,
By apostolic blows and knocks."
Just as his elder brethren, the false priests and prophets of Jerusalem.
