Lamentações de Jeremias 4:14

14 Vagueiam como cegos pelas ruas; andam contaminados de sangue, de tal sorte que não se lhes pode tocar nas roupas.

Lamentações de Jeremias 4:14 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 4:14

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 blind men, and knew not which way to go to make their escape, but wandered from place to place, and could find no way out; or spiritually, though they pretended to great light and knowledge, yet were as blind men, surrounded with the darkness of ignorance and error, and were blind leaders of the blind: they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch
their garments;
or, "could not but touch it with their garments" ^F3; or, "might not" ^F4; it was not lawful for them to do it: the sense is either, that, which way soever these men took to make their escape, they found so many dead carcasses in the streets, and such a profusion of blood by them, that they could not but touch it with their garments; or being besmeared with it, were so defiled, that others might not touch them, even their garments; or these men had defiled themselves with the shedding of the blood of righteous persons; so that they were odious to men, and they shunned them as they would do anything that by the law rendered them in a ceremonious sense unclean, and therefore said as follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (Mhyvwblb wegy wlkwy alb) "quem non possunt, quin tangent vestimentis suis", "Junius & Tremellius.
F4 "Tangebant eum (nempe sanguinem) vestibus eorum quem non potuerunt", i.e. "jure", Gataker.

Lamentações de Jeremias 4:14 In-Context

12 Não creram os reis da terra, bem como nenhum dos moradores do mundo, que adversário ou inimigo pudesse entrar pelas portas de Jerusalém.

13 Isso foi por causa dos pecados dos seus profetas e das iniqüidades dos seus sacerdotes, que derramaram no meio dela o sangue dos justos.

14 Vagueiam como cegos pelas ruas; andam contaminados de sangue, de tal sorte que não se lhes pode tocar nas roupas.

15 Desviai-vos! imundo! gritavam-lhes; desviai-vos, desviai-vos, não toqueis! Quando fugiram, e andaram, vagueando, dizia-se entre as nações: Nunca mais morarão aqui.

16 A ira do Senhor os espalhou; ele nunca mais tornará a olhar para eles; não respeitaram a pessoa dos sacerdotes, nem se compadeceram dos velhos.