Isaiah 59:10

8 The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

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.

11 We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
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.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 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.

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  • Job 5:14

    They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

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  • Lamentations 3:6

    He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

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  • 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.”

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  • Proverbs 4:19

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • 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.

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