Verse 10
Isaiah 59:10
King James Version
10
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.
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
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3
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4
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5
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their wo...
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Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts
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8
The way of peace they know not; and
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9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold o...
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10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if
we had
no eyes: we stumble at noonday as i...
11
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12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgre...
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13
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God (Elohim), speaking oppr...
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14
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the stre...
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15
Yea, truth faileth; and he
that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw
it, and...
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16
And he saw that
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there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brou...
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17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put o...
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18
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19
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