Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 29:10

10. For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of dead sleep , and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered .

Which Phrase notes the plenty, and vehemency of this Judgment.

Hardness of heart, and insensibleness of your Danger and Misery, which God is said to send, because He denies, or withdraws His Light and Grace, which alone can cure those Maladies.

Your Magistrates and Ministers, whose blindness or stupidity is a great Curse and Plague to the people. Or, the Prophets, even the chief (for the head is oft put for the chief of persons or things, as Exod. 30. 23. 1 Chron. 12. 18. and elsewhere) of your seers.

With the veil of ignorance and stupidity, or as to their Eyes, which is understood out of the former Clause. And this last Clause is, and may be rendred thus, The Eyes (which▪ may be repeated out of the foregoing Clause) of your Prophets, and of, or even of your principal seers (or, and of your most intelligent rulers.) hath he covered.

Marginal references: Rom. 11. 8.; Heb. heads.