Isaiah 56:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:6

But by the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had made no repairs on the house.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 29:9

Be astounded and stunned; blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk but not from wine; stagger but not from strong drink!

Isaiah 52:8

Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices; together they shout for joy, for in plain sight they see the return of the Lord to Zion.

Isaiah 58:1

Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.

Lamentations 4:14

Blindly they wandered through the streets, so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.

Ezekiel 13:16

the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for it when there was no peace, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Nahum 3:18

Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Philippians 3:2

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of those who mutilate the flesh!