Deuteronomy 28:29
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
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Deuteronomy 28:29
You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
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Deuteronomy 28:34
so that the sights that you see with your eyes will drive you mad.
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Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you didn’t serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Judges 4:3
The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel for twenty years.
Judges 5:8
They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Psalms 106:42
Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.
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Psalms 107:27
They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
Matthew 27:22
Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do to Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let him be crucified!”
Luke 12:17
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
Luke 16:3
“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
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Psalms 146:8
Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
Romans 11:10
Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Always keep their backs bent.”
Romans 11:25
For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
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Isaiah 29:11
All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”
Isaiah 29:12
and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t read.”
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Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Jeremiah 13:16
Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
Amos 5:18
“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.
Amos 5:20
Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?
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Jeremiah 9:19
For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’ ”
Micah 2:4
In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”
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Acts 22:6
“As I made my journey and came close to Damascus, about noon suddenly a great light shone around me from the sky.
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