Isaiah 59:10

New International Version

Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our way like people without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

Cross References

Job 5:14

Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 28:13

So then, the word of the Lord to them will become: Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there— so that as they go they will fall backward; they will be injured and snared and captured.

Isaiah 8:14

He will be a holy place; for both Israel and Judah he will be a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall. And for the people of Jerusalem he will be a trap and a snare.

Isaiah 8:15

Many of them will stumble; they will fall and be broken, they will be snared and captured.”

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God before he brings the darkness, before your feet stumble on the darkening hills. You hope for light, but he will turn it to utter darkness and change it to deep gloom.

Lamentations 3:6

He has made me dwell in darkness like those long dead.

Lamentations 4:14

Now they grope through the streets as if they were blind. They are so defiled with blood that no one dares to touch their garments.

Ezekiel 21:15

So that hearts may melt with fear and the fallen be many, I have stationed the sword for slaughter at all their gates. Look! It is forged to strike like lightning, it is grasped for slaughter.

Amos 8:9

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.

Micah 3:6

Therefore night will come over you, without visions, and darkness, without divination. The sun will set for the prophets, and the day will go dark for them.

John 12:35

Then Jesus told them, “You are going to have the light just a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, before darkness overtakes you. Whoever walks in the dark does not know where they are going.

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”

Deuteronomy 28:29

At midday you will grope about like a blind person in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.

1 John 2:11

But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.