They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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Gill's Exposition
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 were like…
Barnes' Notes
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.
Adam Clarke
They have wandered as blind men in the streets - Rather, "They ran frantic through the streets, they were stained with blood." This was in their pretended zeal for their cause. Bishop Bonner, who was…
We have here,
I. The sins they were charged with, for which God brought this destruction upon them, and which served to justify God in it (Lam 4:13, Lam 4:14): It is for the sins of her prophets, and…
Cambridge Bible
They these prophets and priests.
wander, etc.] in perplexity and helplessness, stamped with the mark of Cain.
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