Matthew Poole and continuators on Lamentations 4:14

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

A variety of Interpreters hath made this text much more difficult then it is. Certainly nothing can appear more reasonable then to interpret the pronoun in the front of the verse relatively and to fetch the antecedent from the former verse. They, that is the Prophets and the Priests wandred up and down the streets like blind men being spiritually blind, polluting themselves with blood, either the blood of the Children which they slew, or the just men mentioned ver. 13. the slaughter of whom they either incouraged, or at least did not discourage; so as one could not touch a Prophet or a Priest but he must be legally polluted, and there were so many of them, that men could not walk in the streets but he must touch some of them. Some thinking the discourse of the Priests done with interpret They of the blind men in the City who could not walk up and down the streets without touching the Bodies of some that were slain. Others interpret the words of the common people: who during the siege could no more avoid touching bodies slain and so polluting themselves with blood, then blind men could, so as they abhorred to touch their own garments. The first sense to me seemeth most natural and easie.

Marginal references: Or, in [illegible: 1 word] they could [illegible: 2 letters] but touch.