Lamentations 4:14

Old Testament Poetry ASV (1901)

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

Lamentations 4:14 — American Standard Version

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Context — Lamentations 4

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11Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

12The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

13[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

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

15Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].

16The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

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