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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 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,
These prophets and priests blindly grope their way through the streets, grimy and stained from their dirty lives, Wasted by their wasted lives, shuffling from fatigue, dressed in rags.
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
but He did not respect Cain and his offering. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell.
So the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? And why has your countenance fallen?
So now you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth."
And Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is greater than I can bear!
Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me."
And the Lord said to him, "Therefore, [fn] whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
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.
