Deuteronomy 28:29
You will feel your way along at noon like the blind person does in darkness and you will not succeed in anything you do; you will be constantly oppressed and continually robbed, with no one to save you.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.
Judges 3:14
The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.
Judges 4:2-3
The Lord turned them over to King Jabin of Canaan, who ruled in Hazor. The general of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.
Judges 6:1-6
The Israelites did evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.
Judges 10:8
They ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites that eighteenth year -- that is, all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Amorite country in Gilead.
Judges 13:1
The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 13:5-7
For the battle with Israel the Philistines had amassed 3,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and an army as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, "This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears."
Nehemiah 9:26-29
"Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
Nehemiah 9:37
Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!
Job 12:25
They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
Psalm 69:23-24
May their eyes be blinded! Make them shake violently!
Psalm 106:40-42
So the Lord was angry with his people and despised the people who belong to him.
Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring distress on the people and they will stumble like blind men, for they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dirt; their flesh will be scattered like manure.
Acts 21:24
take them and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, so that they may have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself live in conformity with the law.
Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,
Romans 11:25
For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,