We grope for the wall... — The words present a striking parallelism with Deuteronomy 28:29, and may have been reproduced from, or in, it.
We are in desolate places... — Many critics render, (1) among those full of life, or (2) in luxuriant fields, of which (1) is preferable, as giving an antithesis like that of the other clauses. So taken, we have a parallelism with Psalms 73:5-8.