Lamentations 4:15

Depart ye from the unclean ones: 1 Call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: 1 For they are on fire, yea, they stagger: 1 Say ye among the nations, 1 They shall no more sojourn there. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

14Her watchmen staggered in the streets, 1 They were defiled with blood in their weakness, 1 They touched their raiment with it. 1

16The presence of the Lord was their portion; 1 But he will not again look upon them: 1 They regarded not the person of the priests, 1 They pitied not the prophets. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 13:45And the leper in whom the plague is, let his garments be ungirded, and his head uncovered; and let him have a covering put upon his mouth, and he shall be called unclean.

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 →

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