Lamentations 4:13-16

13God punished Jerusalem and its people because their leaders sinned. God did not like the things that their prophets and priests did. They had caused good people to die.

14Those leaders walked in the streets like men who cannot see. There was blood on their clothes and everybody was afraid to touch them.

15‘Go away!’ people shouted at them. ‘Do not touch us! You are too dirty to be among God's people!’ So they went away to other countries, but the people there did not want them. ‘They cannot stay here with us!’ those people said.

16The Lord himself has sent them away. He will not take care of them any longer. Nobody respects the priests. Nobody is kind to the leaders.