イザヤ書 33:23-24 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 33:24

No more sickness. This is clearly a figure, designed to complete the picture of relief from the strain and pressure and anxiety of the time of invasion. Sickness is the constant attendant on prolonged siege. The point on which we may dwell is that sickness is the sign of the presence of evil, of sin; and so heaven is represented as the place where there is no more sickness, because there is no more sin. This connection between sickness and sin lies at the basis of some of the most important... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:23

Thy tacklings - This is evidently an address to Sennacherib. The mention of the war-galley and the ship seems to have suggested the application of the figure to the enemies of the Jews, and particularly to Sennacherib. The prophet, therefore, compares the Assyrian to a ship that was rendered unserviceable; whose sails were unfastened, and whose mast could not be made firm, and which was therefore at the mercy of winds and waves. The Hebrew which is rendered here ‘thy tacklings are loosed,’... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:24

And the inhabitant - The inhabitant of Jerusalem.Shall not say, I am sick - That is, probably, the spoil shall be so abundant, and the facility for taking it so great, that even the sick, the aged, and the infirm shall go forth nerved with new vigor to gather the spoil.The people that dwell therein - In Jerusalem.Shall be forgiven their iniquity - This is equivalent to saying that the calamities of the invasion would be entirely removed. This invasion is represented as coming upon them as a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 33:23-24

Isaiah 33:23-24. Thy tacklings are loosed This apostrophe of the prophet is directed to the hostile nation. Having designed their army under the notion of a gallant ship, (Isaiah 33:21,) he here represents their undone condition by the metaphor of a ship, tossed in a tempestuous sea, having her cables broke, and all her tacklings loose, so that she could have no benefit of her masts and sails; and therefore is quickly swallowed up. They could not strengthen their mast Namely, the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 33:1-24

Assyria defeated; Jerusalem blessed (33:1-24)In speaking again about the current situation, Isaiah announces God’s judgment on the Assyrians. They have plundered greedily and acted treacherously (33:1). Isaiah cries to God to save Jerusalem, so that the enemy armies will flee and the Jerusalemites can seize the goods left behind (2-4). Assured that God will act, the prophet praises him before the actual victory. God gives his people security and wisdom, and they respond with reverence and trust... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:23

the lame take the prey. Referring to the spoil taken from the dead of the Assyrian host. See 2 Kings 19:35 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 33:24

forgiven their iniquity. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:21 ; Exodus 32:32 .Numbers 14:19; Numbers 14:19 ). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 33:23-24

Isaiah 33:23-24. Thy tacklings are loosed— Two things are to be supposed in the interpretation of these words; first, that this apostrophe is directed to the government of the hostile nation: secondly, when the state is described under the image of a ship, whose tacklings are loosed, we are to understand it in a bad sense. The metaphor in the 23rd verse is taken from a ship; and the meaning of it is, that the public means and supplies, which sustain the state of the nation, or the prince who... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 33:23

23. tacklings—Continuing the allegory in Isaiah 33:21, he compares the enemies' host to a war galley which is deprived of the tacklings or cords by which the mast is sustained and the sail is spread; and which therefore is sure to be wrecked on "the broad river" (Isaiah 33:21), and become the prey of Israel. they—the tacklings, "hold not firm the base of the mast." then—when the Assyrian host shall have been discomfited. Hezekiah had given Sennacherib three hundred talents of silver, and thirty... read more