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Lamentations 4:13

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מ (Mem)

4:13But it happened47 due to the sins of her prophets48

and the iniquities of her priests,

who poured out in her midst

the blood of the righteous.

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Footnotes

  1. 47 These words do not appear in the Hebrew, but are supplied to make sense of the line. The introductory causal preposition מִן (min) (“because”) indicates that this phrase—or something like it—is implied through elision.
  2. 48 There is no main verb in the verse; it is an extended prepositional phrase. One must either assume a verbal idea such as “But it happened due to …” or connect it to the following verses, which themselves are quite difficult. The former option was employed in the present translation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

This was for the sins of her prophets

and the iniquities of her priests,

who shed in the midst of her

the blood of the righteous.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

But it happened because of the sins of her prophets

and the iniquities of her priests,

who shed within her

the blood of the righteous.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets

and the iniquities of her priests,

who shed the blood of the righteous within her.

NLTNew Living Translation

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets

and the sins of her priests,

who defiled the city

by shedding innocent blood.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Because of the sins of her prophets,

the guilt of her priests,

who shed blood in her midst,

of righteous people.

KJV 1900King 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,