en_tn/isa/33/23.md

# Your riggings are slack; they cannot hold the mast in place; they cannot spread the sail

Possible meanings: 1) The Assyrian army is like a boat that is unable to move through the water: the ropes that support the mast and sail have come loose and no longer support the mast, so the sail is useless ([Isaiah 33:1](../33/01.md)) or 2) the people of Judah are no longer at war: "You have loosened the cords that supported your flagpole; the flag no longer flies" ([Isaiah 33:17](./17.md)-[Isaiah 22](./22.md)). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# mast

tall poles that support the sail

# sail

a large cloth that fills with wind and moves a boat through the water

# when the plunder of abundant prey is divided

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "when they divide the plunder of abundant prey" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])

# the plunder of abundant prey

"the plunder they can take from all of their victims"

# the lame

This refers to people who are cannot walk. Alternate translation: "those who are lame" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-nominaladj]])