Verse 10
Isaiah 59:10
New Living Translation
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We grope like the blind along a wall,<br>feeling our way like people without eyes.<br>Even at brightest noontime,<br>we stumble as though it were dark.<br>Among the living,<br>we are like the dead.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽ/עִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּ/כְ/אֵ֥ין עֵינַ֖יִם נְגַשֵּׁ֑שָׁה כָּשַׁ֤לְנוּ בַֽ/צָּהֳרַ֨יִם֙ כַּ/נֶּ֔שֶׁף בָּ/אַשְׁמַנִּ֖ים כַּ/מֵּתִֽים
English Translation
We have approached like the blind, and like those with no eyes we have groped; we have stumbled in the midday as in the twilight, among the fat ones like the dead.
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Chapter 59 Context
1
Listen! The LORD’s arm is not too weak to save you,<br>nor is his ear too deaf to hear you call.<br>
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2
It’s your sins that have cut you off from God (Elohim).<br>Because of your sins, he has turned away<...
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3
Your hands are the hands of murderers,<br>and your fingers are filthy with sin.<br>Your lips are ful...
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4
No one cares about being fair and honest.<br>The people’s lawsuits are based on lies.<br>They concei...
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5
They hatch deadly snakes<br>and weave spiders’ webs.<br>Whoever eats their eggs will die;<br>whoever...
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6
Their webs can’t be made into clothing,<br>and nothing they do is productive.<br>All their activity...
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7
Their feet run to do evil,<br>and they rush to commit murder.<br>They think only about sinning.<br>M...
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8
They don’t know where to find peace<br>or what it means to be just and good.<br>They have mapped out...
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9
So there is no justice among us,<br>and we know nothing about right living.<br>We look for light but...
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10
We grope like the blind along a wall,<br>feeling our way like people without eyes.<br>Even at bright...
11
We growl like hungry bears;<br>we moan like mournful doves.<br>We look for justice, but it never com...
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12
For our sins are piled up before God (Elohim)<br>and testify against us.<br>Yes, we know what sinner...
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13
We know we have rebelled and have denied the LORD.<br>We have turned our backs on our God (Elohim).<...
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14
Our courts oppose the righteous,<br>and justice is nowhere to be found.<br>Truth stumbles in the str...
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15
Yes, truth is gone,<br>and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.<br> The LORD looked and was disple...
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16
He was amazed to see that no one intervened<br>to help the oppressed.<br>So he himself stepped in to...
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17
He put on righteousness as his body armor<br>and placed the helmet of salvation on his head.<br>He c...
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18
He will repay his enemies for their evil deeds.<br>His fury will fall on his foes.<br>He will pay th...
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19
In the west, people will respect the name of the LORD;<br>in the east, they will glorify him.<br>For...
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20
“The Redeemer will come to Jerusalem<br>to buy back those in Israel<br>who have turned from their si...
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21
“And this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not leave them, and neither will...
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