Isaiah 59:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like 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 plundered evermore, and no man shall save you.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.
  • Lam 3:6 : 6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.
  • Lam 4:14 : 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
  • Amos 8:9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in broad daylight:
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
  • John 12:40 : 40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not 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 do not know 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 causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon 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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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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