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Lamentations 4:14

They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

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ASV

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

KJV

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
נָע֤וּna.'Uthey wanderedH5128 →
עִוְרִים֙'iv.Rimblind [people]H5787 →
בַּֽחוּצ֔וֹתba.chu.Tzotin the streetsH2351 →
נְגֹֽאֲל֖וּne.go.'a.Luthey were defiledH1351 →
בַּדָּ֑םba.Damby the bloodH1818 →
בְּלֹ֣אbe.Lo'in notH3808 →
יֽוּכְל֔וּyu.khe.Lupeople were ableH3201 →
יִגְּע֖וּyi.ge.'Upeople touchedH5060 →
בִּלְבֻשֵׁיהֶֽם׃ סbil.vu.shei.Hem<in> clothes theirH3830 →

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Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these thingsJude 1:23save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.Numbers 19:11Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.Deuteronomy 28:28–29The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,Isaiah 29:10–12For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.Micah 3:6–7Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.Isaiah 59:9–11Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”Isaiah 59:10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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