Blind are his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them are dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.Isaiah 56:10 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHis watchmen are blind - Kimchi observes, "The flock is intrusted to the care of these watchmen. The wild beasts come; these dogs bark not; and the wild beasts devour the flock. Thus they do not profit the flock. Yea, they injure it; for the owner trusts in them, that they will watch and be faithful; but they are not. These are the false teachers and careless shepherds."
Dumb dogs, they cannot bark - See note on Isaiah 62:6.
Sleeping "Dreamers" - הזים hozim, ενυπνιαζομενοι, Septuagint. This seems to be the best authority for the meaning of this word, which occurs only in this place: but it is to be observed, that eleven MSS. of Kennicott's and De Rossi's, and four editions, have חזים chazim, seers, or those who see; and so the Vulgate seems to have read, videntes vana, "seeing vain things."
Loving to slumber - לנום lanum: but six of Kennicott's and seven of De Rossi's MSS. read לנוס lanus, to fly, "to change their residence:" but what connection such reading can have with the sense of the passage, I cannot discern. What is taken for ס samech here is, I have no doubt, a narrow formed final ם mem, which has been mistaken for the above. Many instances occur in my own MSS., where the final ם mem is similar to the samech; and yet no such change was intended by the scribe.
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watchmen
Isaiah 52:8 Your watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye...
Ezekiel 3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
are blind
Isaiah 29:10 For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers...
Jeremiah 14:13,14 Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, the prophets say to them, You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine...
Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you...
Hosea 9:7,8 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad...
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew 23:16-26 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing...
Luke 6:39,40 And he spoke a parable to them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch...
they are all dumb
Isaiah 58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 6:13,14 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness...
Jeremiah 23:13,14 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err...
Ezekiel 3:15-18,26,27 Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelled by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat...
Ezekiel 13:16 To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace...
Ezekiel 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come...
Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
sleeping. or, dreaming, or talking in their sleep. loving
Proverbs 6:4-10 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids...
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding...
Jonah 1:2-6 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me...
Nahum 3:18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: your nobles shall dwell in the dust: your people is scattered on the mountains...
Mark 13:34-37 For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work...
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