Isaiah 33:23

The enemy is pictured as a crippled ship whose plunder is so freely seized that even the lame share in the spoil.

Cross-references · 14

• 2 Kgs 7:8When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried away silver, gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried things from there also, and went and hid them.
• Ps 68:12“Kings of armies flee! They flee!” She who waits at home divides the plunder,
• 1 Cor 1:27but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;
• Isa 33:1Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.
• Isa 33:21But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of wide rivers and streams, in which no galley with oars will go, neither will any gallant ship pass by there.
• 2 Chr 20:25When Jehoshaphat and his people came to take their plunder, they found among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away. They took plunder for three days, it was so much.
• Acts 27:30–32As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,
• Ezek 27:26–34Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
• 1 Sam 30:22–24Then all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, answered and said, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give them anything of the plunder that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.”
• Isa 33:4Your plunder will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.
• 2 Kgs 7:16The people went out and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a seah of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to Yahweh’s word.
• Acts 27:40–41Casting off the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time untying the rudder ropes. Hoisting up the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.
• 1 Sam 30:10But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn’t go over the brook Besor.
• Acts 27:19On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

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