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Isaiah 56:10
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8 The Lord God, awho gathers the outcasts of Israel, says,
b“Yet I will gather to him
Others besides those who are gathered to him.” 

Israel’s Irresponsible Leaders

9 aAll you beasts of the field, come to devour,
All you beasts in the forest. 
10 His watchmen are ablind,
They are all ignorant;
bThey are all dumb dogs,
They cannot bark;
1Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 
11 Yes, they are agreedy dogs
Which bnever have enough.
And they are shepherds
Who cannot understand;
They all look to their own way,
Every one for his own gain,
From his own territory. 
12 “Come,” one says, “I will bring wine,
And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating adrink;
bTomorrow will be cas today,
And much more abundant.” 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 56:10

His 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" - hozim , , 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 chazim , seers, or those who see; and so the Vulgate seems to have read, videntes vana , "seeing vain things."

Loving to slumber - lanum : but six of Kennicott' s and seven of De Rossi' s MSS. read 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 samech here is, I have no doubt, a narrow formed final mem , which has been mistaken for the above. Many instances occur in my own MSS., where the final mem is similar to the samech ; and yet no such change was intended by the scribe.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 56:10:

Isaiah 62:6

 

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