Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and 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.
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, fearfulness appalled me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. 6 For thus has the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:39
In their excitement I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says 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 a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 13:2
Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, raise the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13:17-18
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
Isaiah 22:13-14
But instead, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating meat, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Isaiah 45:1-3
Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the armor 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 raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance for his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set you up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
Daniel 5:1-5
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what is the gain to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.