Devine Scripture

Isaiah 59:10

Isaiah chapter 59 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

v.10This passage

v.11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 John 2:11

    But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

  • Lamentations 4:14

    They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

  • Jeremiah 13:16

    Give glory to Jehovah 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.

  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

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

  • Isaiah 8:15

    And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.