Isaiah 21:5
Prepare the table, put on the candlesticks, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
In Context
6For thus hath said unto me the Lord, Go, set the watchman, what he seeth let him tell.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2Upon a high mountain lift ye up a banner, raise high your voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may enter into the gates of the princes.
Isaiah 22:13And behold [there are] gladness and joy, slaying of oxen, and killing of sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we must die.”
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord hath awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for against Babylon is his intention, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 51:39When they are heated will I prepare their drinking-feasts, and I will make them drunken, in order that they may be joyful, and [then] sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake again, saith the Lord.
Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar prepared a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and before these thousand did he drink wine.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 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… Read the whole commentary →