King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 4:13
“For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,”
Verse in context — Lamentations 4
The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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