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His; Israel’s, 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.
Watchmen; priests and prophets, or other teachers, who are commonly called watchmen, as Eze_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.
They are all ignorant of God’s will and word, and of their own and the people’s duty, and of the true Messiah.
They are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; 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 errors and corruptions in doctrine, and worship, and conversation, as they ought to do.
Sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber; minding their own ease and safety more than the people’s benefit.