Isaiah 59:10

World English Bible (2000)

We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

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  • Deut 28:29 : 29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
  • Lam 3:6 : 6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
  • Lam 4:14 : 14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 It will happen in that day," says the Lord Yahweh, "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, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.
  • John 12:40 : 40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them."
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Isa 8:15 : 15 Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured."
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

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