Lamentations 4:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ They wander as blind men in the streets, that are polluted with blood, so that men cannot 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

Jeremiah 2:34

Also, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: I have not found it at the place of breaking in, but upon all these.

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.

Isaiah 1:15

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Numbers 19:16

And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Ephesians 4:18

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Hosea 4:2

There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Numbers 35:33

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Jeremiah 26:8

And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Ezekiel 23:45

And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgement of adulteresses, and with the judgement of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Zephaniah 1:17

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung.