Lamentations 4:14
They wandered, blind, through the streets. 1 They were so defiled by that blood that no one was allowed to touch their clothes. 1
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Numbers 19:16Similarly, anyone outside a tent who touches someone who has been killed with a sword, any other dead body, a human bone, or a grave—that person will be unclean for seven days.
Deuteronomy 28:28Yahweh will attack you with madness, with blindness, and with mental confusion.
Isaiah 29:10For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. 1 He has closed your eyes, the prophets, and has covered your heads, the seers.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness reach us. 1 We wait for light, but see darkness; we look for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 1
Ezekiel 23:45But righteous men will pass judgment and punish them as adulteresses, and they will punish them with the sentence for those who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Micah 3:6Therefore, it will be night for you with no vision for you; 1 it will be dark so that you will do no divination. 1 The sun will go down on the prophets, 1 and the day will be dark on them. 1
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 →