Isaiah 56:10 Cross References
Isaiah 56:10
10: For the leaders of my people--the LORD's watchmen, his shepherds--are blind to every danger. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming.
Philippians 3:2
- Watch out for those dogs, those wicked men and their evil deeds, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.
Isaiah 29:10
- For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.
Hosea 9:7
- The time of Israel's punishment has come; the day of payment is almost here. Soon Israel will know this all too well. "The prophets are crazy!" the people shout. "The inspired men are mad!" So they taunt, for the nation is burdened with sin and shows only hatred for those who love God.
- The prophet is a watchman for my God over Israel, yet traps are laid in front of him wherever he goes. He faces hostility even in the house of God.
Nahum 3:18
- O Assyrian king, your princes lie dead in the dust. Your people are scattered across the mountains. There is no longer a shepherd to gather them together.
Matthew 15:14
- so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch."
Isaiah 52:8
- The watchmen shout and sing with joy, for before their very eyes they see the LORD bringing his people home to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 33:6
- But if the watchman sees the enemy coming and doesn't sound the alarm to warn the people, he is responsible for their deaths. They will die in their sins, but I will hold the watchman accountable.
Jeremiah 14:13
- Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, their prophets are telling them, `All is well--no war or famine will come. The LORD will surely send you peace.'"
- Then the LORD said, "These prophets are telling lies in my name. I did not send them or tell them to speak. I did not give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts.
Ezekiel 13:16
- They were lying prophets who claimed peace would come to Jerusalem when there was no peace. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!'
Proverbs 24:30
- I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one lacking sense.
- I saw that it was overgrown with thorns. It was covered with weeds, and its walls were broken down.
- Then, as I looked and thought about it, I learned this lesson:
- A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--
- and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
Isaiah 58:1
- "Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Tell my people Israel of their sins!
Hosea 4:6
- My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Jeremiah 23:13
- "I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil, for they prophesied by Baal and led my people of Israel into sin.
- But now I see that the prophets of Jerusalem are even worse! They commit adultery, and they love dishonesty. They encourage those who are doing evil instead of turning them away from their sins. These prophets are as wicked as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah once were."
Ezekiel 3:15
- Then I came to the colony of Judean exiles in Tel-abib, beside the Kebar River. I sat there among them for seven days, overwhelmed.
- At the end of the seven days, the LORD gave me a message. He said,
- "Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for Israel. Whenever you receive a message from me, pass it on to the people immediately.
- If I warn the wicked, saying, `You are under the penalty of death,' but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible, demanding your blood for theirs.
Proverbs 6:4
- Don't put it off. Do it now! Don't rest until you do.
- Save yourself like a deer escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.
- Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and be wise!
- Even though they have no prince, governor, or ruler to make them work,
- they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.
Mark 13:34
- "The coming of the Son of Man can be compared with that of a man who left home to go on a trip. He gave each of his employees instructions about the work they were to do, and he told the gatekeeper to watch for his return.
- So keep a sharp lookout! For you do not know when the homeowner will return--at evening, midnight, early dawn, or late daybreak.
- Don't let him find you sleeping when he arrives without warning.
- What I say to you I say to everyone: Watch for his return!"
Matthew 23:16
- "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
- Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
- And you say that to take an oath 'by the altar' can be broken, but to swear 'by the gifts on the altar' is binding!
- How blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
- When you swear 'by the altar,' you are swearing by it and by everything on it.
Jonah 1:2
- "Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh! Announce my judgment against it because I have seen how wicked its people are."
- But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction in order to get away from the LORD. He went down to the seacoast, to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping that by going away to the west he could escape from the LORD.
- But as the ship was sailing along, suddenly the LORD flung a powerful wind over the sea, causing a violent storm that threatened to send them to the bottom.
- Fearing for their lives, the desperate sailors shouted to their gods for help and threw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship. And all this time Jonah was sound asleep down in the hold.
- So the captain went down after him. "How can you sleep at a time like this?" he shouted. "Get up and pray to your god! Maybe he will have mercy on us and spare our lives."
Luke 6:39
- Then Jesus gave the following illustration: "What good is it for one blind person to lead another? The first one will fall into a ditch and pull the other down also.
- A student is not greater than the teacher. But the student who works hard will become like the teacher.
Ezekiel 3:26
- And I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so you won't be able to pray for them, for they are rebellious.
- But whenever I give you a message, I will loosen your tongue and let you speak. Then you will say to them, `This is what the Sovereign LORD says!' Some of them will listen, but some will ignore you, for they are rebels.
Jeremiah 6:13
- "From the least to the greatest, they trick others to get what does not belong to them. Yes, even my prophets and priests are like that!
- They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when all is war.