KJV King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
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Isaiah 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
WEB World English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
ASV American Standard Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
Surrounding context — Isaiah 21
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing [of it]; I was dismayed at the seeing [of it].
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot [with] a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, [and] a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
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Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
עָרֹ֧ךְH6186 · a.rakhto arrangeהַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ןH7979 · shul.chantableצָפֹ֥הH6823 · tsa.phahto overlayהַצָּפִ֖יתH6844 · tsa.phitrugאָכ֣וֹלH398 · a.khalto eatשָׁתֹ֑הH8354 · sha.tahto drinkק֥וּמוּH6965 · qa.may(Leb)-kamaiהַשָּׂרִ֖יםH8269 · sarrulerמִשְׁח֥וּH4886 · ma.shachto anointמָגֵֽן׃ פH4043 · ma.genshield
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device [is] against Babylon, to destroy it; because it [is] the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.Daniel 5:1-5Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.Jeremiah 51:27-28Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.Isaiah 13:17-18Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.Isaiah 13:2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.Isaiah 22:13-14And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.1 Corinthians 15:32If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.Isaiah 45:1-3Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
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