Isaiah 59:10
8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
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.
11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Vi famler som de blinde etter en vegg, vi famler lik folk som ingen øyne har; vi snubler om middagen som i tusmørket, midt iblant friske er vi som døde.
- OTB
- Vi famler langs veggen som blinde, vi famler som de uten øyne. Vi snubler ved middagstid som om det var skumring; blant de sterke er vi som døde.
- B1930
- Vi famler som de blinde efter en vegg, vi famler lik folk som ingen øine har; vi snubler om middagen som i tusmørket, midt iblandt friske er vi som døde.
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
- ASV
- We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
- DARBY
- We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.
- BLB
- 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.
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Deuteronomy 28:29
And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
Les i sammenhengJob 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Les i sammenhengLamentations 3:6
He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
Les i sammenhengJohn 12:40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Les i sammenhengProverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Les i sammenhengJeremiah 13:16
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
Les i sammenhengLamentations 4:14
They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
Les i sammenheng1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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