Yahweh will strike you with madness, with blindness, and with astonishment of heart. You will grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways. You will only be oppressed and robbed always, and there will be no one to save you.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 28 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Echo2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The covenant curse of blindness, groping at noonday as the blind grope in darkness, supplies the language of Elymas groping for a guide. Thematic coherence with judgment-blinding; verbal echo of groping.
Low confidenceCovenant-curse blindness ('the LORD will strike you with blindness... you shall grope at noonday') resonates with Paul struck sightless 'about noon' (v6, 11), led by the hand. Ironic inversion — judgment-blindness becomes the threshold of conversion. Contested verbal link via 'noon'/'blindness.'
Low confidence