Lamentations 4:14 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁴ They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could 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 spread forth 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

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find 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 men shall pass judgment on them with the sentence of adulteresses, and with the sentence of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is upon their hands.”

Hosea 4:2

there is swearing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds and murder follows murder.

Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on men, so 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 is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 35:33

You shall not thus 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 him who shed it.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Ephesians 4:18

they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart;