Isaiah 59:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men].

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  • Deut 28:29 : 29 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save [thee].
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
  • Lam 3:6 : 6 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
  • Lam 4:14 : 14 They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, ‹Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.› 10 ‹But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.›
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.›
  • John 12:40 : 40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, [and] make [it] gross darkness.

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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