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They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can`t touch their garments.
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Judgment on Corrupt Leaders
Most commentators identify the wandering 'blind men' as the corrupt priests and prophets. Their spiritual blindness and 'lust for blood' (shedding innocent blood) led to their downfall. Now, they wander aimlessly, so physically and ceremonially polluted that people recoil from them, unable even to touch their garments.
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Lamentations
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18th Century
Presbyterian
They have wandered — God’s ministers, consecrated to His service, wandered through the city blinded by the insatiable lust of slaughte…
19th Century
Anglican
They have wandered ... —Literally, reeled. The blindness, i.e., either that of the insatiable lust of blood, or …
16th Century
Protestant
Those who simply read that the blind had wandered deduce this meaning: that the blind were polluted in the streets, because there was filth everywh…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets That is, the false prophets and wicked priests; and may be unders…
Nothing ripens a people more for ruin, nor fills the measure faster, than the sins of priests and prophets. The king himself cannot escape, for Div…
13th Century
Catholic
Second, he presents their lack of repentance, because they thought they were doing enough simply by staying away from the temple entrance. T…
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