American King James Version
"For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her, "
— Lamentations 4:13, American King James Version
“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,”
“It isbecause of the sins of her prophets, andthe iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. ”
“[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.”
“מ(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.”
“Mem. 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.”
“It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.”
“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,”
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has 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 middle 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 to them, Depart you; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
The anger of the LORD has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.