Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 56:10

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

Israels, as is evident from the following verses: the Pronoun Relative being put without, and instead of the Antecedent; of which I have given divers Instances before.

Priests and Prophets, or other Teachers, who are commonly called Watchmen, as Ezek. 3. 17. & 33. 2. Hos. 9. 8. He mentions only the Teachers, because Ignorance was most shameful in them, but hereby he supposeth the gross ignorance of the People, who neither pretended nor desired to be wiser than their Teachers.

Of Gods Will and Word, and of their own and the Peoples duty, and of the true Messiah.

They are also slothful and negligent in instructing the people, and do not faithfully reprove them for their sins, nor warn them of their dangers, nor keep them from Errours and corruptions in Doctrine, and Worship, and Conversation, as they ought to do.

Minding their own ease and safety more than the Peoples benefit.

Marginal references: Or, dreaming, or talking in their sleep.