Lamentations 4:14 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.”
Lamentations 4:14 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 4:14 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 4:14 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.”
Lamentations 4:14 — World English Bible
Lamentations 4:14 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments. ”
Lamentations 4:14 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 4:14 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without <FI>any<Fi> being able to touch their clothing,”
Lamentations 4:14 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 4:14 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. ”
Lamentations 4:14 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 4:14 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“They haue wandred as blinde men in the streetes, and they were polluted with blood, so that they would not touch their garments.”
Lamentations 4:14 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 4:14 in Context — Lamentations 4
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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What Does Lamentations 4:14 Mean?
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