Deuteronomy 28:29

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person, who cannot tell day from night. For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you, and no one will be able to stop them.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

Then they struck everyone in the crowd blind, and none of them could even find the door.

Nehemiah 9:37

Its plentiful harvest is taken by kings you placed over us because of our sins. Our suffering is unbearable, because they do as they wish to us and our livestock.

Job 12:25

lost in the dark, staggering like someone drunk.

Job 5:14

Darkness is their only companion, hiding their path at midday.

Exodus 10:21

The LORD said to Moses, “Stretch your arm towards the sky, and everything will be covered with darkness thick enough to touch.”

Isaiah 59:10

We feel our way along, as if we were blind; we stumble at midday, as if it were night. We can see no better than someone dead.

Jeremiah 9:19

Now those of us on Zion cry, ‘We are ruined! We can't stand the shame. Our homes have been destroyed, and we must leave our land.’

Lamentations 4:14

Yes, her prophets and priests were covered with blood; no one would come near them, as they wandered from street to street.

Lamentations 5:17

We feel sick all over and can't even see straight;

Lamentations 5:8

Slaves are now our rulers, and there is no one to set us free.

Zephaniah 1:17

The LORD warns everyone who has sinned against him, “I'll strike you blind! Then your blood and your insides will gush out like vomit.

Acts 21:24

Join with them and prepare yourself for the ceremony that goes with the promises. Pay the cost for their heads to be shaved. Then everyone will learn that the reports about you are not true. They will know that you do obey the Law of Moses.

Romans 11:25

My friends, I don't want you Gentiles to be too proud of yourselves. So I will explain the mystery of what has happened to the people of Israel. Some of them have become stubborn, and they will stay like that until the complete number of you Gentiles has come in.

Deuteronomy 28:28

You will become insane and go blind. The LORD will make you so confused,

Judges 10:8

So the same year that Jair died, Israel's army was crushed by these two nations. For eighteen years, Ammon was cruel to the Israelites who lived in Gilead, the region east of the River Jordan that had once belonged to the Amorites.

Judges 13:1

Once again the Israelites started disobeying the LORD. So he let the Philistines take control of Israel for forty years.

Judges 3:14

Then he ruled Israel for eighteen years and forced the Israelites to pay heavy taxes.