“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.
Lamentations 4:14 - The Scriptures 2009 They staggered, blind, in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one was able to touch their garments. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, They have polluted themselves with blood, So that men could not touch Their garments. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [The false prophets and priests] wandered [staggering] in the streets as if blind; they had so polluted themselves with blood it was not [lawful] for men to touch their garments. American Standard Version (1901) They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments. Common English Bible People wandered blindly in the streets, polluted with blood. No one would even touch their clothing. Catholic Public Domain Version NUN. They have wandered in the streets like the blind; they have been defiled with blood. And when they were not able, they held their garments. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.
His watchmen are blind, all of them, they have not known. All of them are dumb dogs, unable to bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
“Even on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. You did not find them breaking in, but in spite of all these,
And it came to be, when Yirmeyahu had ended speaking all that יהוה had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall certainly die!
“But let righteous men judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
“Swearing, and lying, and murdering, and stealing, and committing adultery have increased. And bloodshed follows bloodshed.
“And I shall bring distress on men, and they shall walk like blind men – because they have sinned against יהוה, and their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.”
Anyone in the open field who touches someone slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a burial-site, is unclean for seven days.
And do not profane the land where you are, for blood profanes the land, and the land is not pardoned for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
“Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.
having been darkened in their understanding, having been estranged from the life of Elohim, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,