Isaiah 21:5 Parallel Translations

Set the table. Spread the rugs by the table. Eat. Drink. Get up, you leaders! Prepare your shields for battle!(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

ASV:

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

BBE:

They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

DBY:

Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.

ERV:

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

JPS:

They prepare the table, they light the lamps, they eat, they drink--' Rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.'

WBS:

Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

WEB:

They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

YLT:

Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,

Isaiah 21:5 Cross References

XREF:

Jeremiah 51:39 "When they become heated up, I will serve them their banquet And make them drunk, that they may become jubilant And may sleep a perpetual sleep And not wake up," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 51:57 "I will make her princes and her wise men drunk, Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men, That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up," Declares the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: {h} arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
(h) While they are eating and drinking, they will be commanded to run to their weapons.

WES:

21:5 Prepare - Furnish it with meats and drinks. The prophet foretells what the Babylonians would be doing when their enemies were at their doors. Watch - To give us notice of any approaching danger, that in the meantime we may more securely indulge ourselves. Princes - Of Babylon: arise from the table and run to your arms. Shield - Prepare yourselves and your arms for the approaching battle. The shield is put for all their weapons of offence and defence. They used to anoint their shields with oil, to preserve and polish them, and to make them slippery.

MHC:

21:1-10 Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied of by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the great foe of the New Testament church, foretold in the Revelation. To the poor oppressed captives it would be welcome news; to the proud oppressors it would be grievous. Let this check vain mirth and sensual pleasures, that we know not in what heaviness the mirth may end. Here is the alarm given to Babylon, when forced by Cyrus. An ass and a camel seem to be the symbols of the Medes and Persians. Babylon's idols shall be so far from protecting her, that they shall be broken down. True believers are the corn of God's floor; hypocrites are but as chaff and straw, with which the wheat is now mixed, but from which it shall be separated. The corn of God's floor must expect to be threshed by afflictions and persecutions. God's Israel of old was afflicted. Even then God owns it is his still. In all events concerning the church, past, present, and to come, we must look to God, who has power to do any thing for his church, and grace to do every thing that is for her good.

CONC:

Anoint Appoint Arise Arrange Breastplates Captains Cloth Covers Drink Eat Heads Lamps O Officers Oil Prepare Princes Ready Rise Rugs Shield Shields Spread Table Watch Watchtower Watch-tower

Anoint Arise Arrange Breastplates Captains Cloth Covers Drink Eat Heads Light Officers Oil Prepare Princes Ready Rise Rugs Shield Shields Spread Table Tables Watch Watchtower Watch-Tower

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