Lamentations 4:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.”
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“They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.”
King James Version · Public Domain“They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without <FI>any<Fi> being able to touch their clothing,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 4:14 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
- Deuteronomy 28:28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
- Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Isaiah 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
- Isaiah 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
- Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
- Jeremiah 2:34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
- Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
- Hosea 4:2Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
- Micah 3:6Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
- Zephaniah 1:17I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.
- Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
- Ephesians 4:18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).