Isaiah 59:10

We grope, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:29). Idea the same, but word different. The word in Deuteronomy is the same as in Genesis 27:12; Genesis 27:22; Genesis 31:34; Genesis 31:37; Exodus 10:21.Job 5:14; Job 12:25. The word in Isaiah occurs nowhere else. App-92.

night. Hebrew. nesheph.. Homonym, with two meanings: (1) darkness, as here; Job 24:15.Proverbs 7:9. 2Ki 7:5, 2 Kings 7:7. 2Ki 5:11. 2 Kings 21:4.Jeremiah 13:16. (2) daylight, 1 Samuel 30:17; Job 7:4.Psalms 119:147.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled.
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John Trapp Complete Commentary

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The Biblical Illustrator

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As dead men — He compares their captivity to men dead without hope of recovery.

¹⁰ 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.

Related Commentaries of Isaiah 59:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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