Isaiah 21:5
Arrange the table, watch in the watchtower, || Eat, drink, rise, you heads, anoint the shield,
Literal Standard Version
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 said the Lord to me: “Go, station the watchman, || Let him declare that which he sees.”
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2“Lift up an ensign on a high mountain, || Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, || And they go into the openings of nobles.
Isaiah 22:13And behold, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen, || And slaughtering of sheep, || Eating of flesh, and drinking of wine, || Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Jeremiah 51:11Cleanse the arrows, fill the shields, || YHWH has stirred up the spirit of the kings of Media, || For His purpose [is] against Babylon to destroy her, || For it [is] the vengeance of YHWH, || The vengeance of His temple.
Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I make their banquets, || And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, || And have slept a continuous sleep, || And do not awaken,” a declaration of YHWH.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king has made a great feast to one thousand of his great men, and before the one thousand he is drinking 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 →