Deuteronomy 28:29
and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind; we grope like those who have no eyes; we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
Judges 3:14
And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Judges 4:2-3
And the LORDsold 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
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 10:8
and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 13:5-7
And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears."
Nehemiah 9:26-29
"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9:37
And its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please, and we are in great distress.
Job 12:25
They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Psalm 69:23-24
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.
Psalm 106:40-42
Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against his people, and he abhorred his heritage;
Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,
Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring distress on mankind, so that they shall walk like the blind, because they have sinned against the LORD; their blood shall be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.
Acts 21:24
take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.
Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened,
Romans 11:25
Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers:a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing.