They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.