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Deut. 28:29 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And thou shalt gropeb 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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Job 5:14• ¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night. (Job 5:14)

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Isa. 59:10• ¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead. (Isa. 59:10)

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grope.

Job 5:14• ¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night. (Job 5:14)

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Job 12:25• ²⁵They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunkard. (Job 12:25)

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Psa. 69:23‑24• ²³Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake.
²⁴Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of thine anger take hold of them. (Psa. 69:23‑24)

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Isa. 59:10• ¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead. (Isa. 59:10)

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Lam. 5:17• ¹⁷For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim, (Lam. 5:17)

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Zeph. 1:17• ¹⁷And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men; for they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung: (Zeph. 1:17)

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Rom. 11:7‑10,25• ⁷What is it then? What Israel seeks for, that he has not obtained; but the election has obtained, and the rest have been blinded,
⁸according as it is written, God has given to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, unto this day.
⁹And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:
¹⁰let their eyes be darkened not to see, and bow down their back alway.
²⁵For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in; (Rom. 11:7‑10,25)

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2 Cor. 4:3‑4• ³But if also our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in those that are lost;
⁴in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them. (2 Cor. 4:3‑4)

thou shalt be.

Judg. 3:14• ¹⁴And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. (Judg. 3:14)

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Judg. 4:2‑3• ²And Jehovah sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; and the captain of his army was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth-Goim.
³And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel twenty years. (Judg. 4:2‑3)

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Judg. 6:1‑6• ¹And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
²And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites the children of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
³And it came to pass when Israel sowed, that Midian came up, and Amalek, and the children of the east, and came up against them.
⁴And they encamped against them, and destroyed the produce of the land, until thou come to Gazah, and they left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
⁵For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number; and they entered into the land to destroy it.
⁶And Israel was greatly impoverished because of Midian. And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah. (Judg. 6:1‑6)

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Judg. 10:8• ⁸And they oppressed and crushed the children of Israel in that year; eighteen years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. (Judg. 10:8)

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Judg. 13:1• ¹And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. (Judg. 13:1)

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1 Sam. 13:5‑7,19‑22• ⁵And the Philistines were assembled together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude; and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward from Beth-Aven.
⁶And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.
⁷And the Hebrews went over the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. And Saul was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
¹⁹Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.
²⁰And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened,
²¹when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
²²And it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan; but with Saul and with Jonathan his son there was found. (1 Sam. 13:5‑7,19‑22)

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Neh. 9:26‑29,37• ²⁶But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
²⁷And thou gavest them into the hand of their oppressors, and they oppressed them; and in the time of their distress, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from the heavens, and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their oppressors.
²⁸But when they had rest, they did evil again before thee; and thou didst leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they had dominion over them; and again they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from the heavens, and many times didst thou deliver them, according to thy mercies.
²⁹And thou testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law; but they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thine ordinances (which if a man do, he shall live in them); and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
³⁷And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure; and we are in great distress. (Neh. 9:26‑29,37)

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Psa. 106:40‑42• ⁴⁰Then was the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance;
⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the nations; and they that hated them ruled over them:
⁴²And their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand. (Psa. 106:40‑42)

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Lam. 5:8• ⁸Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. (Lam. 5:8)

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Acts 21:24• ²⁴take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will know that of those things of which they have been informed about thee nothing is true; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping the law. (Acts 21:24)

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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 continuallyf, and there shall be none to save.

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Lit. "all the days." so ver. 33.