Isaiah 59:10
We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.
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- Deut 28:29 : 29 You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.
- Job 5:14 : 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
- Lam 3:6 : 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
- Lam 4:14 : 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.
- Amos 8:9 : 9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:
- John 11:9-9 : 9 Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
- John 12:35 : 35 Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.
- John 12:40 : 40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
- 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
- Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
- Isa 8:15 : 15 And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.
- Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
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8 They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
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11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:
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14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
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16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
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17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.
18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.
19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.
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19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
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22 A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
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6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.
7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
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19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
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19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
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19 Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.
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27 They are turned here and there, rolling like a man who is full of wine; and all their wisdom comes to nothing.
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16 And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.
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15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
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9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
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8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
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16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.
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3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.
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19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.
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7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
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5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
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9 We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
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15 Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?
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10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
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3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.
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10 Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;
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20 Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?
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20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.
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23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
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5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
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5 They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.
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18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.
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14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.
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2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.
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14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.