Lamentations 4:14 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without [any] being able to touch their clothing,
English ASV
They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.
English Amplified
[The false prophets and priests] wandered [staggering] in the streets as if blind; they had so polluted themselves with blood it was not [lawful] for men to touch their garments.
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
[The false prophets and priests] wandered [staggering] in the streets as if blind; they had so polluted themselves with blood it was not [lawful] for men to touch their garments.
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
English EASY 2024
They walked around in the city's streets like people who are blind. There was blood on their clothes and people were afraid to touch them.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
The prophets and priests walked around like blind men in the streets. They had become dirty with blood. No one could even touch their clothes because they were dirty.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Her leaders wandered through the streets as though blind, so stained with blood that no one would touch them.
English God's Word - GW 1995
My people staggered blindly through the streets. They were so contaminated with bloodstains that no one would touch their clothes.
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
Blind, they stumbled in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
English KJV 1611
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
English LSB
They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
They wandered, blind, in the streets; they have defiled themselves with blood, so that no one could touch their garments.
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood So that no one could touch their garments.
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
They staggered blindly in the streets, soiled with blood, So that people could not touch even their garments:
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments. ס ( Samek )
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
Now those prophets and priests have to feel their way along the streets like people who are blind. The blood of those they killed has made them "unclean." So no one dares even to touch their clothes.
English NIV
Now they grope through the streets like men who are blind. They are so defiled with blood that no one dares to touch their garments.
English NKJ 1982
They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.
English NLT
They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared to touch them.
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Blindly they wandered through the streets, so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
They wandered blindly through the city and were so defiled with blood that no one dared to even touch their clothes.
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
They wandered, blind, through the streets, so defiled with blood that none could touch their garments.
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Now these same men are blindly staggering through the streets, covered with blood, defiling everything they touch.
English Tyndale 1537
Nun. So that these blind men went stumbling in the streets, and stained themselves with blood, which else would touch no bloody cloth.