²⁵ They ^(A)grope in the dark without light,
    and he makes them ^(B)stagger like a drunken man.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime
    and ^(A)grope at noonday as in the night.

²⁷ they reeled and ^(A)staggered like drunken men
    and ^(B)were at their wits' end.^[a]

²⁰ The earth ^(A)staggers like a drunken man;
    it sways like a hut;
^(B)its transgression lies heavy upon it,
    and it falls, and will not rise again.

¹⁴ The Lord has mingled within her ^(A)a spirit of confusion,
and they will make Egypt stagger in all its deeds,
    ^(B)as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

^10 (A)We grope for the wall like the blind;
    we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
    ^(B)among those in full vigor we are like dead men.