Deuteronomy 28:29
and thou shall grope at noonday, as the blind man gropes in darkness. And thou shall not prosper in thy ways. And thou shall only be oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
28LORD will smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of mind,
Cross References
Judges 3:14And the sons of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges 6:1And the sons of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 13:1And the sons of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of LORD, and LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make for them swords or spears,
Nehemiah 9:37And it yields much increase to the kings whom thou have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger like a drunken man.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 28:16-45
Threatenings. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: 16 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 19… Read the whole commentary →