We grope for the wall like the blind ones, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noonday as in the twilight, in desolate places like ones dying.
Yet the Word of Jehovah was to them, rule upon rule, rule upon rule; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and stumble, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
And He shall be for a sanctuary, and become a Stone-of-Stumbling and shall be a Rock -of-Falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap and for a snare to the one living in Jerusalem.
Give glory to Jehovah your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains. Yea, while you wait for light, He puts it into death shade, setting up deep gloom.
so that their heart may melt and many stumble at all their gates. I have given the sword of slaughter. Ah! It is made like lightning; it is wrapped for a slaughter.
And it shall be in that day, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, that I will make the sun to go out at noon, and I will darken the earth in light of the day.
Therefore a night shall be for you apart from vision; and darkness for you apart from divining. And the sun shall go in on the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Therefore Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, that darkness not overtake you. And the one walking in the darkness does not know where he is going.
“He has blinded their eyes” and “has hardened their heart,” “that they might not see with the eyes” and “understand with the heart,” “and turn back,” “and I should heal them.” Isa. 6:10
And you shall grope at noonday as the blind grope in darkness. And you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be always oppressed and plundered all the days; and there will be no one to save.
But the one hating his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness blinded his eyes.