Isaiah 21:5
[They are] setting the shulchan, spreading the tzafit (dining carpet), 1 to eat, to drink; 1 arise, ye sarim (princes), and anoint the mogen. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2Lift ye up a nes upon the high mountain, 1 exalt the voice unto them, 1 shake the yad, 1 that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 1
Isaiah 22:13And hinei sasson and simchah, 1 slaughter of bakar and ritual slaughter of tzon, 1 eating basar, and drinking yayin; 1 let us eat and drink; for makhar we shall die. 1
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the khitzim (arrows); 1 take up the shields! Hashem hath stirred up the ruach of the melachim of the Medes: for His mezimah (plan) is against Bavel, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of Hashem, the vengeance for His Heikhal. 1
Jeremiah 51:39In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), 1 and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, 1 and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), 1 and never awake, saith Hashem. 1
Daniel 5:1Belshatzar the king made a mishteh gadol (great feast) to a thousand of his nobles, 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 →