Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without any being able to touch their clothing,
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.
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.
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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 4:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Zion Is Punished
13 Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous, 14 They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without any being able to touch their clothing, 15 Turn aside -- unclean,' they called to them, 'Turn aside, turn aside, touch not,' For they fled -- yea, they have wandered, They have said among nations: 'They do not add to sojourn.'
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:34
Also in thy skirts hath been found the blood of innocent needy souls, Not by digging have I found them, but upon all these.
Numbers 19:16
'And every one who cometh, on the face of the field, against the pierced of a sword, or against the dead, or against a bone of man, or against a grave, is unclean seven days;
Deuteronomy 28:28-29
'Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;
Isaiah 1:15
And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
Isaiah 56:10
Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.
Numbers 35:33
And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;
Isaiah 29:10-12
For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.
Isaiah 59:9-11
Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,
Hosea 4:2
Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
Micah 3:6-7
Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.
Matthew 15:14
let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,