Isaiah 59:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.”
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“Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“We feel like the blind <FI>for<Fi> the wall, Yea, as without eyes we feel, We have stumbled at noon as at twilight, In desolate places as the dead.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 59:10 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 28:29and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
- Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 8:15Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
- Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
- Lamentations 3:6He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
- Lamentations 4:14They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
- Amos 8:9And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
- John 11:9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
- John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
- John 12:40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
- 1 John 2:11But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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