Parallel Verses
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye thought to prepare the table - spread the mat - eat - drink! -- Arise ye chieftains anoint 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
Interlinear
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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 panted; the horror frightened me; the night of my pleasure he has turned into fear unto me.
5
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will place their feasts before them, and I will make them drunken that they may rejoice and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake, said the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:57
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep an eternal sleep and shall not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of the hosts.
Isaiah 13:2
Lift ye up a banner as an example upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, raise the hand, that they may enter in by gates of princes.
Isaiah 13:17-18
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not look for silver, nor covet gold.
Isaiah 22:13-14
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine while they say, let us eat and drink for tomorrow we shall die.
Isaiah 45:1-3
Thus saith the LORD to his Messiah, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by his right hand to subdue Gentiles before him and to loose the loins of kings. To open before him the two-leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut:
Jeremiah 51:11
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields; the LORD has awakened the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his thought is against Babylon to destroy her; for it is vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set ye up a banner in the land, blow the shofar among the Gentiles, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as raised up locusts.
Daniel 5:1-5
Belshazzar the king made a great banquet to a thousand of his lords, and against the thousand he drank wine.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what does it advantage me, if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.