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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.

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ASV

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 robbed alway, and there shall be none to save thee.

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהָיִ֜יתָve.ha.Yi.taand you will beH1961 →
מְמַשֵּׁ֣שׁme.ma.SheshgropingH4959 →
בַּֽצָּהֳרַ֗יִםba.tzo.ho.Ra.yimin the noontide<s>H6672 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רka.'a.Sherjust asH834 →
יְמַשֵּׁ֤שׁye.ma.Sheshhe gropesH4959 →
הָעִוֵּר֙ha.'i.Ver<the> blind [person]H5787 →
בָּאֲפֵלָ֔הba.'a.fe.Lahin the darknessH653 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
תַצְלִ֖יחַtatz.Li.achyou will make successfulH6743 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
דְּרָכֶ֑יךָde.ra.Khei.khaways yourH1870 →
וְהָיִ֜יתָve.ha.Yi.taand you will beH1961 →
אַ֣ךְ'akhonlyH389 →
עָשׁ֧וּק'a.ShukoppressedH6231 →
וְגָז֛וּלve.ga.Zuland robbedH1497 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
הַיָּמִ֖יםhai.ya.Mimthe daysH3117 →
וְאֵ֥יןve.'Einand there notH369 →
מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃mo.Shi.a'[will be] a delivererH3467 →

The walk

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Isaiah 59:10Like 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.Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.Judges 3:14The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.Judges 13:1Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.Judges 10:8who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.Judges 4:2–3So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.Psalms 106:40–42So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.Judges 6:1–6Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,Jeremiah 9:19For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”Romans 1:21For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”Micah 2:4In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”2 Corinthians 4:3–4And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.Psalms 69:23–24May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.1 Samuel 13:5–7Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.Nehemiah 9:37Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.Nehemiah 9:26–29But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.Zephaniah 1:17I will bring such distress on mankind that they will walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD. Their blood will be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung.

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