Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at midday, as a blind man would grope in the darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways; and then thou shalt be unjustly treated, and plundered continually, and there shall be no helper.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
28The Lord smite thee with insanity, and blindness, and astonishment of mind.
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 evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 13:1And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1 Samuel 13:19And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.
Job 12:25Let them grope in darkness, and let there be no light, 1 And let them wander as 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 →