Lamentations 4:14
They wandered like blind men through the streets, made unclean by this blood, so no one would touch their clothes.
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Numbers 19:16If you're out in the open and you touch someone who has been killed by the sword or who has died naturally, or if you touch a human bone or a grave, then you'll be unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 28:28The Lord will drive you mad; he will blind you and confuse you
Isaiah 29:10For the Lord has made you very sleepy, and he has shut the eyes and covered the heads of those who speak for God and see visions.
Isaiah 59:9So that's why we don't have justice, and we don't do what's right. We look for the light, but only find the dark; we look for bright light, but we walk in deep darkness.
Ezekiel 23:45But men who believe in doing what's right will judge them and impose the punishment for committing adultery and murder, because they are adulterers and murderers.
Micah 3:6Therefore it will be like night for you, with no visions; dark, with no predictions. The sun will set on these prophets; their day will end in darkness.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 4:14-21
Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 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… Read the whole commentary →