Isaiah 59:10
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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.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.
In other translations
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.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.
Hebrew words
נְגַשְׁשָׁהnegashshahwe grope forH1659כַעִוְרִיםkha'ivrimlike <the> blind [people]H5787קִירkira wallH7023וּכְאֵיןukhe'einand like there notH369עֵינַיִם'einayim[are] eyesH5869נְגַשֵּׁשָׁהnegasheshahwe gropeH1659כָּשַׁלְנוּkashalnuwe have stumbledH3782בַצָּהֳרַיִםvatzohorayimat <the> noon<s>H6672כַּנֶּשֶׁףkanesheflike the twilightH5399בָּאַשְׁמַנִּיםba'ashmanimamong the fat peopleH820כַּמֵּתִים׃kametimlike <the> dead [people]H4191
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Related verses
- Deuteronomy 28:29And 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.and 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 meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
- Lamentations 3:6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
- John 12:35Then 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.Then 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.
- 1 John 2:11But 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.But 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.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
- Amos 8:9And 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:And 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.
- Isaiah 8:15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
- Lamentations 4:14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.
- John 12:40He 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.“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.”
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