Lamentations 4:14 Parallel Translations

My people staggered blindly through the streets. They were so contaminated with bloodstains that no one would touch their clothes.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

DBY:

They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without any being able to touch their clothing,

Lamentations 4:14 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 28:28 "The LORD will smite you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart;

Deuteronomy 28:29 and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you.

Isaiah 1:15 "So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are blind, All of them know nothing. All of them are mute dogs unable to bark, Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

Isaiah 59:9 Therefore justice is far from us, And righteousness does not overtake us; We hope for light, but behold, darkness, For brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 59:10 We grope along the wall like blind men, We grope like those who have no eyes; We stumble at midday as in the twilight, Among those who are vigorous we are like dead men.

Jeremiah 2:34 "Also on your skirts is found The lifeblood of the innocent poor; You did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:14 They have wandered [as] blind [men] {h} in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that {i} men could not touch their garments.
(h) Some refer this to the blind men who as they went, stumbled on the blood, of which the city was full.
(i) Meaning the heathen who came to destroy them could not abide them.

WES:

4:14 They - The prophets and priests wandered up and down the streets polluting themselves with blood, either the blood of the children which they slew, or the just men, mentioned ver.13, the slaughter of whom they either encouraged, or at least did not discourage; so that one could not touch a prophet or priest, but he must be legally polluted, and there were so many of them, that men could not walk in the streets, but he must touch some of them.

MHC:

4:13-20 Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Divine vengeance pursues him. Our anointed King alone is the life of our souls; we may safely live under his shadow, and rejoice in Him in the midst of our enemies, for He is the true God and eternal life.

CONC:

Able Blind Blood Can't Clothing Dares Defiled Garments Naked None Out-places Polluted Robes Streets Themselves Touch Touched Unclean Wander Wandered Wandering

Able Blind Blood Clothing Dares Defiled Garments Grope Naked Out-Places Polluted Robes Streets Themselves Touch Touched Unclean Wander Wandered Wandering

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