Isaiah 59:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Like those who are blind we grope along the wall, like people without eyes we feel our way. We stumble at midday as if at twilight, among the vigorous, we are like the dead.

Cross References

Job 5:14

They meet with darkness in the daytime, at noonday they grope as though it were night.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know on what they stumble.

Isaiah 28:13

So for them the word of the Lord shall be: “Command on command, command on command, Rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!” So that when they walk, they shall stumble backward, broken, ensnared, and captured.

Isaiah 8:14

He shall be a snare, a stone for injury, A rock for stumbling to both the houses of Israel, A trap and a snare to those who dwell in Jerusalem;

Isaiah 8:15

And many among them shall stumble; fallen and broken; snared and captured.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord, your God, before he brings darkness; Before your feet stumble on mountains at twilight; Before the light you look for turns to darkness, changes into black clouds.

Lamentations 3:6

He has left me to dwell in dark places like those long dead.

Lamentations 4:14

They staggered blindly in the streets, defiled with blood, So that people could not touch even their garments:

Ezekiel 21:15

Sharpened to make a slaughter, burnished to flash lightning! Why should I stop now? You have rejected the rod and every judgment!

Amos 8:9

On that day—oracle of the Lord God— I will make the sun set at midday and in broad daylight cover the land with darkness.

Micah 3:6

Therefore you shall have night, not vision, darkness, not divination; The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark for them.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light will be among you only a little while. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

John 12:40

“He blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and be converted, and I would heal them.”

Deuteronomy 28:29

so that even at midday you will grope in the dark as though blind, unable to find your way. Despoilment. You will be oppressed and robbed continually, with no one to come to your aid.

1 John 2:11

Whoever hates his brother is in darkness; he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes. Members of the Community.