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Lamentations 4:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

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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


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.


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.


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.


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.


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


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


‘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.


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!


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.


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.





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