Deuteronomy 28:29
that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person. You will tell day from night! For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you. No one will be able to stop them.
Job 5:14
They meet in darkness in the daytime! In bright sunlight they grope as if it were night.
Isaiah 59:10
We grope like blind men along a wall. We grope like people without eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were evening. We are like dead people among the living.
Judges 3:14
The Israelites were subject to Eglon for eighteen years.
Judges 4:2-3
Jehovah let them be conquered by Jabin, a Canaanite king who ruled in the city of Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived at Harosheth-Hagoyim.
Judges 6:1-6
Again the people of Israel sinned against Jehovah. Therefore he let the people of Midian rule them for seven years.
Judges 10:8
They afflicted and oppressed the sons of Israel. For eighteen years they lived in Amorite country east of the Jordan River in Gilead.
Judges 13:1
The Israelites sinned against Jehovah again. So he let the Philistines rule them for forty years.
1 Samuel 13:5-7
The Philistines assembled to fight Israel. They had thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and as many soldiers as the sand on the seashore. They camped at Michmash, east of Beth Aven.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
No blacksmith could be found in all of Israel. In this way the Philistines kept the Hebrews from making swords and spears.
Nehemiah 9:26-29
But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority. They turned their backs on your law, and murdered your prophets. These prophets gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you. They did much to make you angry.
Nehemiah 9:37
And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins. They have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.
Job 12:25
They grope in darkness without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.
Psalm 69:23-24
Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see. Let their backs be continually bent.
Psalm 106:40-42
Jehovah burned with anger against his own people. He was disgusted with those who belonged to him.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our hearts are feeble. For these things our eyes are dark.
Zephaniah 1:17
I will bring distress on humans and they will walk like they are blind! They have sinned against Jehovah! Their blood will be poured out like dust and their intestines like manure.
Acts 21:24
Take these men and join in on their purification rites. Let them shave their heads. All will know there is no truth in the things they have heard about you, that you walk orderly and keep the law.
Romans 11:7-10
What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks. The chosen ones have obtained it, and the rest were blinded (rendered stupid) (hardened) (made insensitive).
Romans 11:25
I do not want you to be ignorant of this secret, lest you should be wise in your own conceits (estimation). Blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the nations comes in.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who perish.