Lamentations 4:14-16

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁴ They wandered, blind, through the streets,
    so defiled with blood
that none could touch
    their garments.

¹⁵ “Away! Unclean!” men cried at them;
    “Away! Away! Touch not!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
    men said among the nations,
    “They shall stay with us no longer.”

¹⁶ The Lord himself has scattered them,
    he will regard them no more;
no honor was shown to the priests,
    no favor to the elders.