Able Abundance Abundant Apportioned Base Blind Carry Cords Couldn't Divided Division Feeble-footed Firm Firmly Foot Goods Hangs Held Hold Lame Loose Loosed Mast Plunder Prey Property Rigging Rightly Ropes Sail Sails Secure Slack Socket Spoil Spoils Spread Stand Strengthen Stretched Strong Support Tackle Tacklings Untied War
33:23 Thy {a} tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the {b} prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
(a) He derides the Assyrians and enemies of the Church, declaring their destruction as they who perish by shipwreck.
(b) He comforts the Church, and shows that they will be enriched with all benefits both of body and soul.
33:23 Tacklings - He directs his speech to the Assyrians; and having designed their army under the notion of a gallant ship, ver.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. The lame - They shall leave so many spoils behind them, that there shall be enough left for the lame, who come last to the spoil.
33:15-24 The true believer watches against all occasions of sin. The Divine power will keep him safe, and his faith in that power will keep him easy. He shall want nothing needful for him. Every blessing of salvation is freely bestowed on all that ask with humble, believing prayer; and the believer is safe in time and for ever. Those that walk uprightly shall not only have bread given, and their water sure, but they shall, by faith, see the King of kings in his beauty, the beauty of holiness. The remembrance of the terror they were in, shall add to the pleasure of their deliverance. It is desirable to be quiet in our own houses, but much more so to be quiet in God's house; and in every age Christ will have a seed to serve him. Jerusalem had no large river running by it, but the presence and power of God make up all wants. We have all in God, all we need, or can desire. By faith we take Christ for our Prince and Saviour; he reigns over his redeemed people. All that refuse to have Him to reign over them, make shipwreck of their souls. Sickness is taken away in mercy, when the fruit of it is the taking away of sin. If iniquity be taken away, we have little reason to complain of outward affliction. This last verse leads our thoughts, not only to the most glorious state of the gospel church on earth, but to heaven, where no sickness or trouble can enter. He that blotteth out our transgressions, will heal our souls.
Able Abundance Abundant Base Carry Cords Couldn't Divided Division Feeble-Footed Firm Firmly Foot Goods Great Hangs Held Hold Lame Mast Plunder Prey Property Rigging Sail Sails Secure Slack Socket Spoil Spoils Spread Stand Strengthen Stretched Strong Support Tackle Untied War
Able Abundance Abundant Base Carry Cords Couldn't Divided Division Feeble-Footed Firm Firmly Foot Goods Great Hangs Held Hold Lame Mast Plunder Prey Property Rigging Sail Sails Secure Slack Socket Spoil Spoils Spread Stand Strengthen Stretched Strong Support Tackle Untied War
