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13 Many and terrible were the crimes that her leaders,
    the ones who should be most righteous of all, committed.
Prophets and priests shed the blood of the upstanding
    and also the just in her midst.

14 Never had leaders wandered blindly,
    polluted by the blood they spilled,
Untouchable even by their garments.

15 “Out! Get away from us. We’re impure. Do not touch us!”
    the priests and prophets yelled.
So they wandered like fugitives, rejected wherever they went.
    Even the foreign nations wouldn’t take them.

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13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
    and the iniquities of her priests,(A)
who shed within her
    the blood(B) of the righteous.

14 Now they grope through the streets
    as if they were blind.(C)
They are so defiled with blood(D)
    that no one dares to touch their garments.

15 “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them.
    “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!”
When they flee and wander(E) about,
    people among the nations say,
    “They can stay here no longer.”(F)

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