Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 4:14

"They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments." — Lamentations 4:14 (ASV)

They have wandered ... —Literally, reeled. The blindness, i.e., either that of the insatiable lust of blood, or of hopeless despair, or both. (Jeremiah 23:12; Isaiah 29:10.) The horror of the picture is heightened by the fact that the very garments of the priests were so dripping with blood that men shrank from touching them.