Lamentations 4:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 13:45-46 : 45 And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean. 46 While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lam 4:14
    80%

    14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Isa 52:11
    80%

    11 Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.

  • Lam 4:16
    79%

    16 The face of the Lord has sent them in all directions; he will no longer take care of them: they had no respect for the priests, they gave no honour to the old men.

  • Mic 2:10
    78%

    10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

  • Ezek 36:19-20
    2 verses
    76%

    19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.

    20 And when they came among the nations, wherever they went, they made my holy name unclean, when it was said of them, These are the people of the Lord who have gone out from his land.

  • Ezek 4:13
    75%

    13 And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.

  • Zech 7:14
    75%

    14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

  • Ezra 9:11
    75%

    11 Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

  • Lev 15:31
    74%

    31 In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.

  • 2 Cor 6:17
    73%

    17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

  • Num 5:2-4
    3 verses
    73%

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;

    3 Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.

    4 So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.

  • Jer 14:10
    73%

    10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.

  • Lev 18:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

    25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

  • Lev 18:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

    28 So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Ezek 11:18
    73%

    18 And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.

  • Num 16:26
    73%

    26 And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

  • Job 30:5
    73%

    5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves

  • Ezek 36:17
    72%

    17 Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.

  • Ezek 22:15
    72%

    15 And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.

  • Hos 9:17
    72%

    17 My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

  • Isa 6:12
    72%

    12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

  • Hos 9:6
    72%

    6 For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.

  • Lev 20:23
    72%

    23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • Isa 65:5
    72%

    5 Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.

  • Isa 30:22
    72%

    22 And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!

  • Jer 44:22
    72%

    22 And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

  • Hos 5:6
    72%

    6 They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

  • Jer 15:1
    72%

    1 Then the Lord said to me, Even if Moses and Samuel came before me, I would have no desire for this people: send them away from before me, and let them go.

  • Isa 13:14
    72%

    14 And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

  • Lev 13:46
    71%

    46 While the disease is on him, he will be unclean. He is unclean: let him keep by himself, living outside the tent-circle.

  • Isa 30:11
    71%

    11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

  • Lev 11:28
    71%

    28 Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.

  • Ezek 9:7
    71%

    7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

  • Hos 7:13
    71%

    13 May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

  • Hos 9:3
    71%

    3 They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.

  • Ezek 44:7
    71%

    7 To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

  • Deut 4:27
    71%

    27 And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

  • Jer 9:2
    71%

    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.

  • Judg 2:15
    71%

    15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

  • Jer 9:16
    70%

    16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

  • Lev 13:11
    70%

    11 It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.

  • Ezek 44:10
    70%

    10 But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.

  • Ezek 44:19
    70%

    19 And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.

  • Num 19:22
    70%

    22 Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

  • Num 19:20
    70%

    20 But the man who, being unclean, does not make himself clean in this way, will be cut off from the meeting of the people, because he has made the holy place of the Lord unclean: the water has not been put on him, he is unclean.