Isaiah 33:23

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21 But there the majestic Lord will be for us
A place of broad rivers and streams,
In which no¹ galley with oars will sail,
Nor majestic ships pass by

22 (For the Lord is our ^aJudge,
The Lord is our ^bLawgiver,
^cThe Lord is our King;
He will save us);

23 Your tackle is loosed,
They could not strengthen their mast,
They could not spread the sail.
Then the prey of great plunder is divided;
The lame take the prey.

24 And the inhabitant will not say, “I am sick”;
^aThe people who dwell in it will be forgiven their iniquity.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Isaiah 33:23

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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