Bible verse
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
Lamentations 4:14 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 4.
10 The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.
12 The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.
13 But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
14 They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
15 “Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
16 The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.
17 All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
18 They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!
KJV
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
ASV
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
ERV
They wander as blind men in the streets, that are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.
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