Lamentations 4:14
“Here is secondly considered the insufficient correction. For, abstaining only from an entering into the temple, they believed themselves to make satisfaction. As said: "They wandered, blind, through the streets," That is, scattering through the streets blindly. As Wisdom 2:21 records: "for their wickedness blinded the…”
Source: Septuagint
14Her watchmen staggered in the streets, They were defiled with blood in their weakness, They touched their raiment with it.
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12The kings of the earth, Even all that dwell in the world, Believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter Through the gates of Jerusalem.
13For the sins of her prophets, And iniquities of her priests, Who shed righteous blood In the midst of her,
— Lamentations 4:14 —
15Depart ye from the unclean ones: Call ye them: depart, depart, touch them not: For they are on fire, yea, they stagger: Say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.
16The presence of the Lord was their portion; But he will not again look upon them: They regarded not the person of the priests, They pitied not the prophets.