Isaiah 21:5
The table is prepared; the watch is set; They eat; they drink; “Arise, ye princes! Anoint the shield!”
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
In Context
4My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.
6For thus said the Lord unto me: “Go, set a watchman, Who shall declare what he seeth.”
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!
Isaiah 22:13But, behold, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating flesh and drinking wine! “Let us eat and drink, For to-morrow we die!”
Jeremiah 51:11Make sharp the arrows; put on the shields! Jehovah hath roused up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; For his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; For this is the vengeance of Jehovah, The vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 51:39In their heat I will prepare them a drink, And will make them drunk, so that they shall rejoice, And then sleep an everlasting sleep, And awake no more, saith Jehovah.
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar, the king gave a great feast to his thousands lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
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 →