Lamentations 4:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They have wandered - God’s ministers, consecrated to His service, wandered through the city blinded by the insatiable lust of slaughter. It was a pollution to touch their garments.
Lamentations 4:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They have wandered [as] blind [men] (h) in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that (i) men could not touch their garments. (h) Some refer this to the blind men who as they wen...
Lamentations 4:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4. The Fourth Lament. This has less literary finish than Lamentations 4:3 , and it has also less spiritual value. It lacks much of the saints whom one seems to see in Lamentations 4:...
Lamentations 4:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

polluted... with blood. Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 19:11 ; Numbers 19:16 ). App-92.
Lamentations 4:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

They who simply read, that the blind had wandered, deduce this meaning, that the blind were polluted in the streets, even because there was filth everywhere. They, indeed, come near to the mean...
Lamentations 4:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. They have wandered as blind men in the streets - Rather, "The...
Lamentations 4:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

So that men could not touch their garments— It could not be avoided but their garments must be touched. Therefore the prophet immediately addresses the citizens of Jerusalem, Lamentations 4:15 ....
Lamentations 4:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. They have wandered as blind - with mental aberration. Th...
Lamentations 4:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's former Glory contrasted with her present Humiliation In this fourth dirge the poet describes the miseries of the various classes in the sack of Jerusalem, concluding with a warning to Edom....
Lamentations 4:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They have wandered... — Literally, reeled. The blindness, i.e., either that of the insatiable lust of blood, or of hopeless despair, or both. (Comp. Deuteronomy 28:28 ; Jeremiah 23:12 ; Isai...
Lamentations 4:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

LEPERS Lamentations 4:13-16 PASSING from the fate of the princes to that of the prophets and priests, we come upon a vividly dramatic scene in the streets of Jerusalem amid the terror and confu...
Lamentations 4:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The fourth poem is for the most part a dirge of desolation, which nevertheless ends in a song of hope. Jeremiah first described the disaster in Zion, declaring that it all arose as the result of the...
Lamentations 4:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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, They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselve...
Lamentations 4:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets ,.... That is, the false prophets and wicked priests; and may be understood either literally, that when the city was taken, and they fled, they wer...
Lamentations 4:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. Ver. 14. They have wandered as blind men in the streets. ]...
Lamentations 4:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They have wandered as blind men in the streets They strayed from the paths of righteousness, and were blind to every thing that was good, but to do evil they were quick-sighted; they have polluted...
Lamentations 4:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Cause of Jerusalem's Sorrows. B. C. 588. 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the in...
Lamentations 4:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A variety of interpreters hath made this text much more difficult than it is. Certainly nothing can appear more reasonable than to interpret the pronoun in the front of the verse relatively, and to f...
Lamentations 4:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Predicament Was Largely Due To The Priests And The Prophets Who Would Suffer Accordingly ( Lamentations 4:12-17 ). The prophet now draws attention to the fact of how much of Jerusalem'...
Lamentations 4:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (מ) Lamentations 4:13 . It is needful to connect this verse with the last by words like, This incredible thing came to pass, because of the sins of her prophets, the iniqui...
Lamentations 4:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:1 . How is the gold, זהב zahab, so called because of its superior lustre to other metals, now become dim. Gold does not oxidize, and scarcely receives a tarnish; yet the rulers...
Lamentations 4:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE SUFFERINGS OF JERUSALEM ; NO CLASS IS EXEMPT . EDOM 'S TRIUMPHING . EXPOSITION Lamentations 4:1 How is the gold become dim!… the stones of the sanctuary, etc. "Alas f...
Lamentations 4:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

God's Judgment a Consequence of the Sins of the Prophets and Priests
Lamentations 4:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:28 ; Deuteronomy 28:29 ; Ephesians 4:18 ; Hosea 4:2 ; Isaiah 1:15 ; Isaiah 29:10-12 ; Isaiah 56:10 ; Isaiah 59:9-11 ; Jeremiah 2:34 ; Micah 3:6 ; Micah 3:7 ; Matthew 15:14...
Lamentations 4:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They — The prophets and priests wandered up and down the streets polluting themselves with blood, either the blood of the children which they slew, or the just men, mentioned Lamentations 4:13 , t...

Lamentations 4:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Lamentations 4:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 4:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 4:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 4:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 4:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 4:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 4:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 4:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 4:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 4:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 4:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes