Isaiah 59:10

New Century Version

We are like the blind feeling our way along a wall. We feel our way as if we had no eyes. In the brightness of day we trip as if it were night. We are like dead men among the strong.

Cross References

Job 5:14

Darkness covers them up in the daytime; even at noon they feel around in the dark.

Proverbs 4:19

But the wicked walk around in the dark; they can’t even see what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 28:13

So the words of the Lord will be, “A command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there.” They will fall back and be defeated; they will be trapped and captured.

Isaiah 8:14

Then he will be a place of safety for you. But for the two families of Israel, he will be like a stone that causes people to stumble, like a rock that makes them fall. He will be like a trap for the people of Jerusalem, and he will catch them in his trap.

Isaiah 8:15

Many people will fall over this rock. They will fall and be broken; they will be trapped and caught.”

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings darkness and before you slip and fall on the dark hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it into thick darkness; he will change it into deep gloom.

Lamentations 3:6

He made me sit in the dark, like those who have been dead a long time.

Lamentations 4:14

They wandered in the streets as if they were blind. They were dirty with blood, so no one would touch their clothes.

Ezekiel 21:15

Their hearts will melt with fear, and many people will die. I have placed the killing sword at all their city gates. Oh! The sword is made to flash like lightning. It is held, ready for killing.

Amos 8:9

The Lord God says: “At that time I will cause the sun to go down at noon and make the earth dark on a bright day.

Micah 3:6

So it will become like night for them, without visions. It will become dark for them, without any way to tell the future. The sun is about to set for the prophets; their day will become dark.

John 12:35

Then Jesus said, “The light will be with you for a little longer, so walk while you have the light. Then the darkness will not catch you. If you walk in the darkness, you will not know where you are going.

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes, and he has closed their minds. Otherwise they would see with their eyes and understand in their minds and come back to me and be healed.”

Deuteronomy 28:29

You will have to feel around in the daylight like a blind person. You will fail in everything you do. People will hurt you and steal from you every day, and no one will save you.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates a brother or sister is in darkness, lives in darkness, and does not know where to go, because the darkness has made that person blind.