King James Version (KJV)
Isaiah 33:23
“Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.”
Verse in context — Isaiah 33
21
But there the glorious LORD [will be] unto us a place of broad rivers [and] streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22
For the LORD [is] our judge, the LORD [is] our lawgiver, the LORD [is] our king; he will save us.
23
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
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And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein [shall be] forgiven [their] iniquity.
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