Verses 10-11
10, 11. His watchmen The people’s teachers.
Are blind Can see nothing with a spiritual eye.
Dumb dogs An image from shepherds’ bad watchdogs, which fail to give notice of danger.
Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber An exact description of the miserable, outcast curs to be observed, even to this day, in every Eastern town or city. They are nobody’s dogs, allowed to lounge about and greedily devour garbage thrown into the street. What a comparison! Such are the shepherds which the worldly and irreligious are willing to tolerate. Each of these “blind,” “ignorant,” “dumb” watchmen looks to worldly gain, careless as to results on the character of his flock.
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