Lamentations 4:13 - Exposition

For the sins of her prophets, etc. Instead of connecting this verse by a comma with the following, we should rather view it as a unit in itself, and understand at the beginning, "All this hath happened" The sins of the prophets and priests are mentioned together by Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 6:13 ; Jeremiah 23:11 ), as well as by Isaiah ( Isaiah 28:7 ). But we are nowhere else told that the spiritual leaders of the people, in these closing years of the Jewish state, were guilty of shedding innocent blood, unless this is to be inferred from the incident related in Jeremiah 26:7 , etc.