Isaiah 21:5
Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch towre: eate, drinke: arise, ye princes, anoynt the shielde.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 hath the Lord said vnto me, Go, set a watchman, to tell what he seeth.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:2Lift vp a standard vpon the hie mountaine: lift vp the voyce vnto them: wagge the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 22:13And beholde, ioy and gladnes, slaying oxen and killing sheepe, eating flesh, and drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morowe we shall die.
Jeremiah 51:11Make bright the arrowes: gather the shieldes: the Lord hath raised vp the spirit of the King of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babel to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, and the vengeance of his Temple.
Jeremiah 51:39In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.
Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar made a great feast to a thousand of his princes, and dranke 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 →