Deuteronomy 28:29

and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.

Job 5:14


“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.

Isaiah 59:10


We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.

Judges 3:14

And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Judges 4:2-3

So the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

Judges 6:1-6

Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian for seven years.

Judges 10:8

and they oppressed and crushed Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Judges 13:1

Now Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

1 Samuel 13:5-7

Now the Philistines gathered to fight against Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and troops in multitude, like sand on the seashore. They came up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

1 Samuel 13:19-22

Now no blacksmith (metal-worker) could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

Nehemiah 9:26-29


“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who warned them
To return to You;
And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.

Nehemiah 9:37


“Its abundant produce is for the kings
Whom You have set over us because of our sins;
They also rule over our bodies
And over our cattle as they please,
So we are in great distress.

Job 12:25


“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”

Psalm 69:23-24


May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

Psalm 106:40-42


Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against His people
And He detested His own inheritance.

Lamentations 5:8


Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:17


Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim.

Zephaniah 1:17


I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind [unable to find a way of escape],
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
Their blood will be poured out like dust [and trampled underfoot],
And their flesh like dung.

Acts 21:24

take these men and purify yourself along with them, and pay their expenses [for the temple offerings] so that they may shave their heads. Then everyone will know that there is nothing to the things they have been told about you, but that you yourself also follow and keep the Law.

Romans 11:7-10

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking [that is, God’s favor by obedience to the Law], but the elect [those chosen few] obtained it, while the rest of them became hardened and callously indifferent;

Romans 11:25

I do not want you, believers, to be unaware of this mystery [God’s previously hidden plan]—so that you will not be wise in your own opinion—that a partial hardening has [temporarily] happened to Israel [to last] until the full number of the Gentiles has come in;

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

Grope

Job 5:14

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,
And at noon they grope as in the night.
Job 12:25

“They grope in darkness without light,
And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
Psalm 69:23

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].
Isaiah 59:10

We grope for a wall like the blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are like dead men.
Lamentations 5:17

Because of this our heart is faint,
Because of these things our eyes are dim.
Zephaniah 1:17

I will bring distress on men
So that they will walk like the blind [unable to find a way of escape],
Because they have sinned against the Lord;
Their blood will be poured out like dust [and trampled underfoot],
And their flesh like dung.
Romans 11:7
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking [that is, God’s favor by obedience to the Law], but the elect [those chosen few] obtained it, while the rest of them became hardened and callously indifferent;
2 Corinthians 4:3
But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;