Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Have wandered
They have polluted
So that men could not touch
Bible References
Have wandered
Deuteronomy 28:28
The LORD shall smite thee with madness and blindness and astonishment of heart.
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant; they are all dumb dogs; they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, they love to slumber.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Micah 3:6
Therefore the vision shall be made night unto you, and darkness unto those that divine, and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Matthew 15:14
Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
Ephesians 4:18
having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,
They have polluted
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it.
Isaiah 1:15
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; likewise, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood.
Jeremiah 2:34
Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.
So that men could not touch
Numbers 19:16
And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Hosea 4:2
By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.