Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope about at noonday, as the blind gropeth about in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and thou shalt be only oppressed and robbed all the days, but with no one to help.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
28The Lord will sinite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with confusion of heart;
Cross References
Judges 3:14And the children of Israel served 'Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges 6:1And the children of Israel did the evil in the eyes of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 13:1And the children of Israel did again the evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no smith to be found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, So that the Hebrews shall not make themselves swords or spears.
Nehemiah 9:37And it yieldeth its products in abundance for the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins; also over our bodies have they dominion, and over our cattle [also] at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light, and he causeth them to wander astray 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 →