Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Are blind

Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and he has covered your heads (the seers).
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD. Behold, the prophets tell them, 'You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."
Matthew 23:16
"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
Luke 6:39
He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

They are all dumb

Isaiah 58:1
"Cry aloud, do not spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Jeremiah 6:13
"For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.
Jeremiah 23:13
"I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.
Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to them of the exiles at Tel Aviv, that lived by the river Chebar, and to where they lived; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
Ezekiel 13:16
to wit, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace,'"' says the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 33:6
But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.'
Philippians 3:2
Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

Loving

Proverbs 6:4
Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
Jonah 1:2
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim against it, for their wickedness has come up before me."
Nahum 3:18
Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
Mark 13:34
"It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

General references

Deuteronomy 27:18
'Cursed is he who makes the blind to wander out of the way.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'