Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 59:10

10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noon-day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men :

As a blind man, that hath no other Eyes then his Hands, feels for the Wall, from whence he expects either [illegible: 1 word], o[illegible: 1+ letters] a resting place to lean on, so they expect Salvation as it were blindfold, not taking direction from the Prophets, but hoping to obtain it by their cries and Fasts, though they continued in their sins, and therefore may well be said to grope after it; See Deut. 28. 28, 29. Iob 12. 25.

As if we were stark blind, and being here put for yea, thereby aggravating the misery in repeating the expression.

This notes their exceeding blindness, as it must needs be with one that can discern no more at noon day, than if it were midnight, Iob 5. 14.

He compares their Captivity to men dead without hope of recovery, their bonds render them as free among the dead, Psal. 88. 5. They can see the way, or get out of their Captivity no more than dead men can out of their Graves; Thus a calamitous estate is set forth, Psal. 44. 19. great calamity and despair oft going together, they are as men cast out no more to be looked after. Compare Lam. 3. 6. All darkness is uncomfortable, but that of the grave terrible.

Marginal references: Deut. 28. 28, 29. Job 5. 14. Amos 8. 9.