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Isa_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.
Ver. 21. But there the glorious Lord will be.] The Church must needs be invincible, because the glorious Lord is her champion, or "will do gallantly for us," as the words may be rendered. Her name is Jehovahshammah. {Eze_48:35} The Lord is there, and how many reckon we him at? He alone is a potent army. {Isa_52:12}
A place of broad rivers and streams.] Such as Mesopotamia was, or the garden of God. Or, He shall be instead of broad rivers, &c., even a river that shall not be drawn dry or sucked out, as Euphrates was by Cyrus when he took Babylon; a river that shall not fail the dwellers by, as Nile once at least did Egypt, for nine years together -
“ Creditur Aegyptus caruisse iuvantibus arva
Imbribus; atque annis sicca fuisse novem. ”
- Ovid, Art., lib. i.
but shall fill its banks and shores perpetually, and keep a full stock of streams and waters.
Wherein shall go no galley, nor gallant ship,] i.e., None of the enemy’s navies shall annoy it. England had the experience of this in that famous 1588, when the seas were turreted with such a navy of ships, as her swelling waves could hardly be seen; and the flags, streamers, and ensigns so spread in the wind, that they seemed to darken even the sun; but the glorious God defeated them.