Isaiah 59:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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  • Isa 59:8-9
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    8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

    9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

  • Isa 59:11-12
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    11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

    12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.

    17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • 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.

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • 22 The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

  • 10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

  • 18 In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

  • Job 24:16-17
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    16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

    17 For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6 For we are all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

    7 There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • 19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

  • 19 Teach us what we shall tell him; For we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

  • 27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, And are at their wits' end.

  • 16 I will bring the blind by a way that they don't know; in paths that they don't know will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

  • 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • 9 We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, Neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.

  • 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

  • 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • 3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • 6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • 19 Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 7 My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

  • 22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • 5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • 9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • 15 Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • 10 My heart throbs. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it has also left me.

  • 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • 10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

  • 20 Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

  • 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • 23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

  • 5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

  • 14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

  • 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

  • 14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.