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Isa. 56:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; δsleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

or, dreaming, or, talking in their sleep.

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watchmen.

Isa. 52:8• ⁸--The voice of thy watchmen, they lift up the voice, they sing aloud together; for they shall see eye to eye, when Jehovah shall bring again Zion. (Isa. 52:8)

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Ezek. 3:17• ¹⁷Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. (Ezek. 3:17)

are blind.

Isa. 29:10• ¹⁰For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered. (Isa. 29:10)

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Jer. 14:13‑14• ¹³And I said, Alas, Lord Jehovah! Behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; for I will give you assured peace in this place.
¹⁴And Jehovah said unto me, The prophets prophesy falsehood in my name; I have not sent them, neither have I commanded them, nor spoken unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. (Jer. 14:13‑14)

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Hos. 4:6• ⁶My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. (Hos. 4:6)

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Hos. 9:7‑8• ⁷The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.
⁸Is Ephraim a watchman with my God? nay the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of his God. (Hos. 9:7‑8)

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Matt. 15:14• ¹⁴Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch. (Matt. 15:14)

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Matt. 23:16‑26• ¹⁶Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
¹⁷Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.
¹⁹Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?
²⁰He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.
²¹And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.
²²And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it.
²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.
²⁴Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
²⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
²⁶Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. (Matt. 23:16‑26)

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Luke 6:39‑40• ³⁹And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? shall not both fall into the ditch?
⁴⁰The disciple is not above his teacher, but every one that is perfected shall be as his teacher. (Luke 6:39‑40)

they are all dumb.

Isa. 58:1• ¹Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)

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Jer. 6:13‑14• ¹³For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely.
¹⁴And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace. (Jer. 6:13‑14)

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Jer. 23:13‑14• ¹³And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
¹⁴And in the prophets of Jerusalem have I seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in falsehood, and strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none doth return from his wickedness. They are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. (Jer. 23:13‑14)

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Ezek. 3:15‑18,26‑27• ¹⁵And I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and I sat where they sat; and I sat there astonied among them seven days.
¹⁶And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
¹⁷Son of man, I have appointed thee a watchman unto the house of Israel, and thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me.
¹⁸When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
²⁶And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
²⁷And when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house. (Ezek. 3:15‑18,26‑27)

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Ezek. 13:16• ¹⁶the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see a vision of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:16)

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Ezek. 33:6• ⁶But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. (Ezek. 33:6)

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Phil. 3:2• ²See to dogs, see to evil workmen, see to the concision. (Phil. 3:2)

sleeping.

or, dreaming, or talking in their sleep.

loving.

Prov. 6:4‑10• ⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids:
⁵deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise:
⁷which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
⁸provideth her bread in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
⁹How long, sluggard, wilt thou lie down? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest! (Prov. 6:4‑10)

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Prov. 24:30‑34• ³⁰I went by the field of a sluggard, and by the vineyard of a man void of understanding;
³¹and lo, it was all grown over with thistles, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and its stone wall was broken down.
³²Then I looked, I took it to heart; I saw, I received instruction:
³³--A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!
³⁴So shall thy poverty come as a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man. (Prov. 24:30‑34)

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Jonah 1:2‑6• ²Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
³But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of Jehovah; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of Jehovah.
⁴But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest upon the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
⁵And the mariners were afraid, and cried every one unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to be lightened of them. But Jonah had gone down into the lower part of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
⁶And the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, sleeper? arise, call upon thy God; perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not. (Jonah 1:2‑6)

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Nah. 3:18• ¹⁸Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them. (Nah. 3:18)

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Mark 13:34‑37• ³⁴it is as a man gone out of the country, having left his house and given to his bondmen the authority, and to each one his work, and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.
³⁵Watch therefore, for ye do not know when the master of the house comes: evening, or midnight, or cock-crow, or morning;
³⁶lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
³⁷But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch. (Mark 13:34‑37)

• Those who should warn and defend were like drunkards, filled with false optimism. (“Isaiah 56” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber: