Deuteronomy 28:29 “and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt also grope at noone daies, as the blinde gropeth in darknes, and shalt not prosper in thy wayes: thou shalt neuer but bee oppressed with wrong and be powled euermore, and no man shall succour thee.

Darby Translation

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 continually, and there shall be none to save.

Young's Literal Translation

and thou hast been gropling at noon, as the blind gropeth in darkness; and thou dost not cause thy ways to prosper; and thou hast been only oppressed and plundered all the days, and there is no saviour.

Bible in Basic English

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

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Cross references

“grope”

Isaiah 59:10 Job 5:14 Job 12:25 Lamentations 5:17 Zephaniah 1:17 Romans 11:7–10

Isaiah 59:10 · 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.

Job 5:14 · BSB

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

Job 12:25 · BSB

They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.

Lamentations 5:17 · BSB

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Zephaniah 1:17 · BSB

I 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.

Romans 11:7–10 · BSB

What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

“thou shalt be”

Judges 3:14 Judges 6:1–6 Judges 10:8 Judges 13:1 Psalm 106:40–42 1 Samuel 13:5–7

Judges 3:14 · BSB

The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 6:1–6 · BSB

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

Judges 10:8 · BSB

who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

Judges 13:1 · BSB

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

Psalm 106:40–42 · BSB

So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

1 Samuel 13:5–7 · BSB

Now 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

28The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,

30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

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