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Isaiah 59

Isa. 59:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Weg grope
gashash (Hebrew #1659)
apparently to feel about
KJV usage: grope.
Pronounce: gaw-shash'
Origin: a primitive root
for the wall
qiyr (Hebrew #7023)
or (feminine) qiyrah {kee-raw'}; from 6979; a wall (as built in a trench)
KJV usage: + mason, side, town, X very, wall.
Pronounce: keer
Origin: or qir (Isa. 22:5) {keer}
like the blind
`ivver (Hebrew #5787)
blind (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: blind (men, people).
Pronounce: iv-vare'
Origin: intensive from 5786
, and we grope
gashash (Hebrew #1659)
apparently to feel about
KJV usage: grope.
Pronounce: gaw-shash'
Origin: a primitive root
as if we had no eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
: wei stumble
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
at noonday
tsohar (Hebrew #6672)
a light (i.e. window): dual double light, i.e. noon
KJV usage: midday, noon(-day, -tide), window.
Pronounce: tso'-har
Origin: from 6671
as in the night
nesheph (Hebrew #5399)
properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
KJV usage: dark, dawning of the day (morning), night, twilight.
Pronounce: neh'-shef
Origin: from 5398
; we are in desolate
'ashman (Hebrew #820)
a fat-field
KJV usage: desolate place.
Pronounce: ash-mawn'
Origin: probably from 8081
places as dead
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
men.
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Deut. 28:29• 29and 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. (Deut. 28:29)
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Amos 8:9• 9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day. (Amos 8:9)

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Cross References

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grope.
Deut. 28:29• 29and 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. (Deut. 28:29)
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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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Prov. 4:19• 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)
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Jer. 13:16• 16Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the mountains of twilight; and ye shall look for light, but he will turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness. (Jer. 13:16)
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Lam. 4:14• 14They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. (Lam. 4:14)
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Amos 8:9• 9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the land in the clear day. (Amos 8:9)
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John 11:9‑10• 9Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any one walk in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world;
 10but if any one walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. (John 11:9‑10)
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John 12:35,40• 35Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
 40He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them. (John 12:35,40)
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1 John 2:11• 11But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. (1 John 2:11)
in desolate.
Lam. 3:6• 6He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead. (Lam. 3:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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We grope fork the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishinga we are as the dead.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "at," "along."
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Others, "in desolate places."