Isaiah 56:10

Israel's watchmen are blind, ignorant, and like mute dogs who cannot bark, lazy and sleepy. It matters because it condemns negligent spiritual leaders who fail to warn God's people.

Cross-references · 21

• Isa 29:10For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
• Ezek 33:6But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
• Isa 58:1“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• Phil 3:2Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
• Mark 13:34–37It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Hos 9:7–8The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have arrived—let Israel know it. The prophet is called a fool, and the inspired man insane, because of the greatness of your iniquity and hostility.
• Matt 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• Nah 3:18O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
• Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
• Prov 24:30–34I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
• Prov 6:4–10Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
• Luke 6:39–40Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
• Ezek 13:16those prophets of Israel who prophesied to Jerusalem and saw a vision of peace for her when there was no peace, declares the Lord GOD.’
• Ezek 3:15–18I came to the exiles at Tel-abib who dwelt by the River Kebar. And for seven days I sat where they sat and remained there among them, overwhelmed.
• Jer 14:13–14“Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
• Isa 52:8Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, together they shout for joy. For every eye will see when the LORD returns to Zion.
• Matt 23:16–26Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’
• Jer 23:13–14“Among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.
• Jonah 1:2–6“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
• Ezek 3:26–27I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, though they are a rebellious house.
• Jer 6:13–14“For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.

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