Lamentations 4:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁴ Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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

¹⁴ [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)

¹⁴ They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ People wandered blindly in the streets, polluted with blood. No one would even touch their clothing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ 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.

Lamentations 4:14 Cross References

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s  watchmen  are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep.

Jeremiah 2:34

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor. You did not catch them breaking and entering. But in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 26:8

When he finished the address the Lord had commanded him to deliver to all the people, immediately the priests, the prophets, and all the people took hold of him, yelling, ‘You must surely die!

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous men will judge them the way adulteresses  and those who shed blood are judged, for they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 4:2

Cursing,  lying,  murder,   stealing, and adultery  are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the  Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Numbers 19:16

Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Numbers 35:33

‘Do not defile the land where you live, for bloodshed defiles the land,  and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone! They are blind guides.   And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.’

Ephesians 4:18

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because  of the hardness of their hearts.