28 The Lord will strike you with insanity, blindness, and with confusion of [a]mind; 29 and you will be (A)groping about at noon, just as a person who is blind gropes in the darkness, and you will not be successful in your ways; but you will only be [b]oppressed and robbed all the time, with no one to save you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 28:28 Lit heart
  2. Deuteronomy 28:29 Or exploited

10 For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep (A)sleep,
He has (B)shut your eyes—the prophets;
And He has covered your heads—the seers.

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10 His (A)watchmen are (B)blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

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A Confession of Wickedness

Therefore (A)justice is far from us,
And righteousness does not reach us;
We (B)hope for light, but there is darkness,
For brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We (C)grope for the wall like people who are blind,
We grope like those who have no eyes.
We (D)stumble at midday as in the twilight;
Among those who are healthy we are (E)like the dead.

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