Isaiah 59:10
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.
Cross-reference
Deuteronomy 28:29 contains the same curse imagery: groping like a blind person at midday — the covenant curse Israel now experiences.
Job 5:14 says the wicked grope at noon as if it were night, the same metaphor used here for Israel's condition.
Jeremiah 13:16 uses the same 'stumble in darkness' imagery, warning that glory must be given before God turns light into gross darkness.
Amos 8:9 prophesies the sun going down at noon, matching the 'stumble at noon day as in the night' imagery of judgment.
In John 11:9, Jesus contrasts: those walking in daylight do not stumble, opposite to Isaiah's noon-day stumbling.
John 11:10 provides the cause: walking in night causes stumbling because there is no light within — explaining why they grope.
John 12:35 warns that darkness makes one not know where they go, echoing the groping and stumbling of the blind.
John 12:40 reveals the source: God blinded their eyes, so they cannot see — the cause behind the blindness in Isaiah.
1 John 2:11 directly parallels: walking in darkness, blinded eyes, not knowing where one goes — the same condition.
Micah 3:6 pronounces 'night without vision' on false prophets, directly paralleling the spiritual blindness and groaning in darkness described here.
Zephaniah 1:17 says 'they shall walk like blind men' — the exact same imagery of divine judgment causing spiritual blindness seen in Isaiah 59:10.
2 Corinthians 3:14 describes a veil over Israel's minds — a direct continuation of the blindness motif Isaiah 59:10 uses for the people's condition.
Proverbs 4:19 describes the way of the wicked as deep darkness, similar to the stumbling blindness in this verse.
Lamentations 3:6 says God set him in dark places like the dead, similar to being 'in desolate places as dead men'.
Lamentations 4:14 describes priests wandering blind in streets, mirroring the groping blindness of Isaiah 59:10 in a context of judgment.