Deuteronomy 28:29
You will grope about at noonday like the blind grope in the darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; you will be always oppressed and robbed, and there will be no one to save you.
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In Context
28Yahweh will attack you with madness, with blindness, and with mental confusion.
Cross References
Judges 3:14The people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab for eighteen years.
Judges 6:1The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.
Judges 13:1The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 13:19No blacksmith could be found throughout all of Israel, because the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews would make swords or spears for themselves.”
Nehemiah 9:37The rich yield from our land goes to the kings you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light; 1 he makes them stagger like a drunk 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 →