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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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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    Verse Isaiah 59:10. _WE STUMBLE AT NOON DAY AS IN THE NIGHT _- "We stumble at mid-day, as in the twilight"] I adopt here an emendation of Houbigant, נשגגה _nishgegah_, instead of the second, נגששה _n...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נְגַֽשְׁשָׁ֤ה כַֽ † עִוְרִים֙ קִ֔יר וּ כְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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