Lamentations Chapter 4 verse 14 Holy Bible
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
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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.
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They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
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They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without `any' being able to touch their clothing,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - They; i.e. the prophets and priests. Wandered as blind men. The leaders of the people are blinded by ignorance, for they know not the only true way of averting calamity, and by passion, for they have not that "eye" of the soul (Matthew 6:22, 23) which alone enables a man to see the good and the right course for himself individually, The" wandering," or, rather, "staggering" (comp. Psalm 107:27, Authorized Version), however, may also refer to the panic stricken condition of those self. deceived deceivers when overtaken by God's punishment; comp. "wine of reeling" (Authorized Version, "astonishment"), Psalm 60:3; also the prophecies in Deuteronomy 28:28, 29; Jeremiah 23:12. The doubt is whether "have wandered" refers to some period before the final catastrophe, or to the consternation produced by that awful surprise. The latter view seems the more probable. They have polluted themselves, etc. Their acts of violence have been continued to the very end of their term of power. Their garments are still stained with blood when the summons to depart into exile reaches them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) They have wandered . . .--Literally, reeled. The blindness, i.e., either that of the insatiable lust of blood, or of hopeless despair, or both. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:28; Jeremiah 23:12; Isaiah 29:10.) The horror of the picture is heightened by the fact that the very garments of the priests were so dripping with blood that men shrank from touching them.
