The priests, who are supposed not to touch dead bodies (Numbers 19:11), and the prophets, who thought they knew better than Jeremiah, are in a pathetic situation now. They go through the streets like blind people, with blood on their clothes. This is in line with the curse in Deuteronomy 28:28–29: “The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness.”
14 They wandered, blind, through the streets; they were so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.