Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Ye thought to prepare the table - spread the mat - eat - drink! -- Arise ye chieftains anoint the shield!
New American Standard Bible
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”
King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Holman Bible
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
International Standard Version
They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!"
A Conservative Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.
American Standard Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Amplified
They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”
Bible in Basic English
They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
Darby Translation
Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Julia Smith Translation
Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield.
King James 2000
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear [the] shield!
Modern King James verseion
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."
NET Bible
Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
New Heart English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield.
Webster
Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
World English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Youngs Literal Translation
Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
Themes
Anointing » Was used for » Preparing weapons for war
military Arms » Before using » Anointed
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Destruction of
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denunciations against babylon
Persia » Prophecies concerning
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fall Of Babylon
4 My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me, - My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling. 5 Ye thought to prepare the table - spread the mat - eat - drink! -- Arise ye chieftains anoint the shield! 6 For, thus, hath My Lord said unto me, - Go, set the watchman, What he seeth, let him tell!
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake, - Declareth Yahweh.
Jeremiah 51:57
Then will I make drunk - Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age-abiding sleep, and not wake, - Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
Isaiah 13:2
Upon a bare mountain, lift ye up a standard, Raise high the voice to them, Wave the hand, That they may enter the doors of nobles.
Isaiah 13:17-18
Behold me! stirring up against them the Medes, - Who of silver, shall take no account, And as for gold, they shall not delight in it;
Isaiah 22:13-14
Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, - Let us eat and drink, For to-morrow, we may die!
Isaiah 45:1-3
Thus, saith Yahweh, to his Anointed, to Cyrus - Whose right hand I have firmly grasped To subdue before him, nations, And the loins of kings, will I ungird, - To open, before him, the two-leaved doors, And, the gates, shall not be shut:
Jeremiah 51:11
Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields, - Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her, - For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set ye up an ensign in the earth Blow ye a horn among the nations Hallow against her - nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat Minni, and Ashkenaz, - Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts:
Daniel 5:1-5
Belshazzar the king, made a great feast, to a thousand of his nobles, - and, before the thousand, was drinking, wine.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild-beasts at Ephesus, what, to me, the profit? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for, tomorrow, we die.