For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Ver. 10. For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep.] By a judiciary hardness he hath rolled a stone upon your hearts, and given you up to a reprobate sense. He hath cast you into a dead lethargy, a dedolent disposition; so that "because of the blindness of their hearts," this people are "past feeling," Eph 4:18-19 and because they have wilfully winked, he hath even dashed out their eyes, bereaving them of the light against which they rebelled, Job 24:13 so that they have neither sight nor light, lemosorum instar oculos mentis concretos habent; they are miserably benighted.
The prophets, &c.] A blind seer is a monster. How could these, thus blindly led, avoid the ditch of destruction?