Lamentations 4:15

Those who met these blood-stained priests and prophets in the street abhorred them, and warned them off with the cry which the leper was himself to raise, Unclean, unclean!(Leviticus 13:45). Theirs was a moral leprosy. The v., as it stands, is too long from the metrical point of view and so probably includes one or more glosses. Moreover the Heb. for "fled away" occurs here only. By the change of a consonant we get the root rendered (R.V.) "wanderer" in Genesis 4:12. "The fate of Cain falls upon those who were guilty of his sin." Pe.

When perhaps as mg. Yea.

they fled away and wandered, etc.] when they fled away, then they wandered. Abroad also men would have none of them.