Isaiah 21:5
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
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In The King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
In Context
6For 'Adonay [Lord] said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.” + 22:13. Quoted in 1 Cor 15:32
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 →