Isaiah 21:5
They prepare the table, they spread rugs and eat and drink; 1 arise, princes, anoint your shields with oil. 1
Unlocked Literal 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 pounds; I shake with fear. 1 Twilight was my desire, but it brought me terror. 1
6For this is what the Lord said to me, 1 “Go, post a watchman; he must report what he sees. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2On the bare mountain set up a signal flag, cry aloud to them, 1 wave your hand for them to go into the gates of the nobles. 1
Isaiah 22:13But look, instead, celebration and gladness, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, 1 eating meat and drinking wine; let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die. 1
Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows and take up the shields. Yahweh is stirring up 1 the spirit of the king of the Medes in a plan to destroy Babylon. 1 This is for Yahweh's vengeance, vengeance for the destruction of his temple. 1
Jeremiah 51:39When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy, 1 and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1
Daniel 5:1Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his noblemen, and he drank wine in front of all one thousand of them.
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 →