Lamentations 4:14

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

Cross-reference

Numbers 19:16 Related theme

Numbers 19:16 explains uncleanness from touching the dead — the same impurity that makes these blood-stained people untouchable.

Deuteronomy 28:28 pronounces blindness as a covenant curse — here it is realized in Jerusalem's desolation.

Deuteronomy 28:29 describes groping at noon — exactly the blindness Lamentations depicts as God's judgment.

Isaiah 1:15 Parallel

In Isaiah 1:15, God hides his eyes because their hands are full of blood — the same blood guilt that causes the blindness here.

Isaiah 56:10 condemns blind watchmen — the same blindness of leaders that Lamentations describes as a consequence of their sins.

Jeremiah 2:34 Related theme

Jeremiah 2:34 finds the lifeblood of the innocent on garments — the same defilement that makes these wanderers untouchable.

Micah 3:6 Parallel

Micah 3:6 predicts prophets will have no vision, only darkness — exactly the blindness that has come upon them in Lamentations.

Numbers 19:11 Related theme

Numbers 19:11 states that touching a dead body brings uncleanness — the same ritual impurity that defiles these wanderers.

Ezekiel 9:9 Parallel

Ezekiel 9:9 describes the land full of blood and injustice, matching the blood-defilement in Lamentations 4:14.

Zephaniah 1:17 uses 'walk like the blind' for the day of the Lord judgment, directly parallel to Lamentations 4:14.

Isaiah 29:10-12 describes God shutting prophetic eyes — here the same blindness befalls Jerusalem's leaders.

Hosea 4:2 Parallel

Hosea 4:2 lists rampant sin and bloodshed — the moral cause of the defilement that leaves them blind and wandering.

Numbers 35:33 Related theme

Numbers 35:33 teaches that bloodshed pollutes the land requiring atonement — the same blood defilement that makes these people untouchable.

Isaiah 59:9-11 describes people groping in darkness due to sin — the same imagery used here for Jerusalem's suffering.