They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
(216) This clause has been variously explained. The whole passage from Lamentations 4:12 inclusive, ought to be considered. The taking of Jerusalem is said to have been incredible, even to heathens. Then the Prophet, in Lamentations 4:13, tells the cause — “the sins of the prophets and the iniquities of the priests;” and in Lamentations 4:14 ,he describes their shame and their punishment at the siege, when the people found out by experience that they had be deceived by them, — 