Lamentations 4:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ Blindly they wandered through the streets, so defiled with blood that no one was able 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ 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.

Lamentations 4:14 Cross References

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 26:8

And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die!

Ezekiel 23:45

But righteous judges shall declare them guilty of adultery and of bloodshed, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Hosea 4:2

Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring such distress upon people that they shall walk like the blind; because they have sinned against the Lord, their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart.