Lamentations 4:14

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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

Ephesians 4:18

They have polluted

Numbers 35:33

Isaiah 1:15

Jeremiah 2:34

So that men could not touch

Numbers 19:16

Hosea 4:2

Bible References

Have wandered

Jehovah will strike thee with madness and with blindness and with astonishment of heart;

For Jehovah poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and he will close your eyes: the prophets and your heads, the seeing he covered.

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.

For this, night to you from a vision, and darkness to you from divining; and the sun went down upon the prophets, and the day was dark upon them.

Let them go: they are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

They have polluted

And ye shall not pollute the land which ye are in it: for blood it will pollute the land: and for the land it will not be expiated for the blood which was poured out upon it but by the blood of him shedding.

And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood.

Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these.

So that men could not touch

And every one who shall touch upon the face of the field, upon the wounded of the sword, or upon the dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Swearing and lying, and breaking in pieces, and stealing and committing adultery, they broke forth; and bloods touched upon bloods.