Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Thy tacklings are loosed - Here the Assyrians are represented under the figure of a ship wrecked by a violent storm; and the people on the beach, young, old, feeble, and diseased, gathering the spoil without any to hinder them. Kimchi, who understands the whole of this chapter of Hezekiah and the king of Assyria, says, "There are others of our rabbins who apply it all to the days of the Messiah."
Their mast "Thy mast" - For tornam , "their mast, "the Syriac reads torneycha , "thy mast;" the Septuagint and Vulgate, tornecha , ̔ ̔ , "thy mast is fallen aside." - Septuagint.
They seem to have read natah or panah , tornecha , or rather, lo con , "is not firm," the negative having been omitted in the present text by mistake. However, I have followed their sense, which seems very probable, as the present reading is to me extremely obscure.
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