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.

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.

Lamentations 3:6

He kept me in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 8:15

Many will stumble over them. They will fall and be broken. They will be trapped and caught.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Jehovah your God before he brings darkness and before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You hope for light. He makes it into deep darkness and turns it into gloom.

Lamentations 4:14

They are wandering like blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood. Men may not touch their robes.

Amos 8:9

It will happen in that day, said the Lord Jehovah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them: The light will be with you for a little while. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

John 12:40

He has blinded their eyes. He hardened their heart. Otherwise they would see with their eyes and perceive with their heart. Then they would turn and I would heal them.

1 John 2:11

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

In desolate

General references

Bible References

In desolate

Lamentations 3:6
He kept me in dark places, like those who have been dead a long time.

General references

Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
John 8:27
They were not aware that he spoke to them about the Father.