Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil 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!
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 flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield. 6 For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:57
"I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up," says the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 13:2
Set up a banner on the bare mountain. Lift up your voice to them. Wave your 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 will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
Isaiah 22:13-14
and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will 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 strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Jeremiah 51:11
Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Set 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 marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
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 I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."