Isaiah 21:5

The Fall Of Babylon

⁴ My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.
⁵ Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet!
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields! ⁶ For the Lord has said to me,
“Go, post a lookout;
let him report what he sees.

Eating and Drinking

Our Shield

Prepare a Table

Prepare For Battle

Belshazzar

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast,
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and sages drunk,
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.

Isaiah 13:2

Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.

Isaiah 13:17-18

Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who cannot be bought off with silver
and who have no desire for gold.

Isaiah 22:13-14

But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine—
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isaiah 45:1-3

The Lord says this to Cyrus, His anointed,
whose right hand I have grasped
to subdue nations before him,
to disarm kings,
to open the doors before him
and the gates will not be shut:

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows!
Fill the quivers!
The Lord has put it into the mind
of the kings of the Medes
because His plan is aimed at Babylon
to destroy her,
for it is the Lord’s vengeance,
vengeance for His temple.

Jeremiah 51:27-28

Raise a signal flag in the land;
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;
set apart the nations against her.
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm of locusts.

Daniel 5:1-5

King Belshazzar held a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles and drank wine in their presence.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.