Deuteronomy 28:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 28. With madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart— These calamities at home will in time throw you into distraction, stupidity, and infatuation: quite astonish and confound your undertakings, and put you upon methods opposite to common sense, whereby you shall run into the very jaws of general destruction, groping at noon-day; ver. 29. i.e. your minds will be so darkened, that, in the plainest things, you shall mistake the means of your own preservation. See Elsner's Observat. sac. tom. i. p. 449. This phrensy and infatuation of the Jews were never more discernible than in their transactions in the time of Trajan. See Basnage's History of the Jews, b. vii. c. 11. and compare Jeremiah 25:16-18. Zephaniah 1:17. Lamentations 4:14.Jeremiah 4:9. Ezekiel 4:17.