Isaiah 59:10

They shall feel for the wall as blind men, and shall feel for it as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noonday as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.

11They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:29And 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.

Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; 1 They know not how they stumble. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into darkness.

Lamentations 4:14Her watchmen staggered in the streets, 1 They were defiled with blood in their weakness, 1 They touched their raiment with it. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:10-16

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 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. 11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. 12 For our transgressions… Read the whole commentary →

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