Isaiah 21:5

In 11 translations

BSB

They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

KJV

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

WEB

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

ASV

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

LSV

Arrange the table, watch in the watchtower, || Eat, drink, rise, you heads, anoint the shield,

YLT

Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,

DBY

Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.

DRC

Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

GNV

Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch towre: eate, drinke: arise, ye princes, anoynt the shielde.

JPS

They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink — 'Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

LXXE

Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.

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WLC

עָרֹ֧ךְ הַשֻּׁלְחָ֛ן צָפֹ֥ה הַצָּפִ֖ית אָכ֣וֹל שָׁתֹ֑ה ק֥וּמוּ הַשָּׂרִ֖ים מִשְׁח֥וּ מָגֵֽן׃

LXX-Br

Ἑτοίμασον τὴν τράπεζαν, φάγετε, πίετε· ἀναστάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες, ἑτοιμάσατε θυρεοὺς,

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• Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
• Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.
• Jeremiah 51:39While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
• Daniel 5:1–5Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them. Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar…
• Isaiah 13:2Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
• Jeremiah 51:27–28“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like…
• Isaiah 22:13–14But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:…
• 1 Corinthians 15:32If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
• Isaiah 45:1–3This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut: “I will go before you…
• Isaiah 13:17–18Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold. Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with…

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