Isaiah 59:10

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Modern

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

Traditional

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Literal

We grope like the blind along the wall, and as without eyes we grope; we stumble in the noonday as in the twilight, among the strong as the dead.

Latin

Palpavimus sicut cæci parietem, et quasi absque oculis attrectavimus: impegimus meridie quasi in tenebris; in caliginosis quasi mortui.

Original

Hebrew

English

Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

Notes

Isaiah 59:10

the blind: See Isaiah 6:10; Deuteronomy 28:29.

Isaiah 59:9–15

Israel had a long history of turning away from God. The people often rebelled against him.

In this passage, the prophet speaks for the nation. He admits their sins and expresses deep sorrow. He says they could not grasp the light of God’s salvation (they could not understand or receive the rescue God offered).

Isaiah 59:1–20

The Lord alone will bring salvation. Like a warrior, he will enter the world to defeat his enemies and protect his holy people.

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Deuteronomy 28:29
…and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
Job 5:14
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Lamentations 3:6
He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
John 11:9–10
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.
Isaiah 8:15
Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
Amos 8:9
And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
1 John 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
John 12:35
Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Lamentations 4:14
They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

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