Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
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.
New American Standard Bible
They were defiled with
So that no one could touch their
King James Version
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Holman Bible
נ Nun
defiled by this blood,
so that no one dared
to touch their garments.
International Standard Version
people stagger around in the streets like the blind, defiled by blood unclean so that no one is able to touch their clothing.
A Conservative Version
They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.
American Standard Version
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
Amplified
They wandered, blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with blood
So that no one could touch their garments.
Darby Translation
They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Julia Smith Translation
The blind were shaken in the streets, they were stained with blood, so that they shall not be able to touch upon their garments.
King James 2000
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched.
Modern King James verseion
they reeled blind in the streets; they are defiled with blood, so that not any can touch their clothes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Nun} So that these blind men went stumbling in the streets, and stained themselves with blood, which else would touch no bloody cloth.
NET Bible
(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.
New Heart English Bible
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men can't touch their garments.
The Emphasized Bible
They have wandered - blind - in the streets, have defiled themselves with blood; so that men may not touch their garments.
Webster
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
World English Bible
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without any being able to touch their clothing,
Interlinear
Nuwa`
Chuwts
Yakol
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her. 14 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. 15 Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Numbers 19:16
And anyone touching one who has been put to death with the sword in the open country, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or a man's bone, or the resting-place of a dead body, will be unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 28:28-29
He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:
Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Numbers 35:33
So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
Isaiah 29:10-12
For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
Isaiah 59:9-11
For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Hosea 4:2
There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
Micah 3:6-7
For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
Matthew 15:14
Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
Ephesians 4:18
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;