33:20,21
Jerusalem, Zion, was a city under serious threat. While it would survive the Assyrian threat, it would later become a heap of rubble under the Babylonians. Yet there would come a time when it would be a city of peace, an immovable city. The reference to broad rives and streams means that the waters would be shallow, so that war ships could not get at her, this was a reference to places like Tyre and Thebes.
33:22
The key to this peace and prosperity is the Lord. This would happen when He was their judge, lawgiver and king. It is the Lord who would save them. At present they were looking to everyone and anyone else to save them, and all such looking was doomed to failure. We do much the same all too often. We will put our hope in anything but in the Lord. It is only when we trust in the Lord that true peace comes.
33:23,24
The picture painted in the previous few verses is in stark contrast to the present reality. Judah was like a ship whose rigging was hanging loose, her sails were not spread, her mast not secure. In short, she could not sail as she was meant to. When we have our focus on something other than Christ, our trust in something other than Christ, then we will not travel as we are meant to, life will not go the way it should. We seem to then return to the picture of the ideal Jerusalem. When a people do trust in God things are so different, and the sins of people are forgiven.
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