5They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields!


In Context

2 A dire vision has been shown to me: The traitor betrays, the looter takes loot. Elam, attack! Media, lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she caused.

3 At this my body is racked with pain, pangs seize me, like those of a woman in labor; I am staggered by what I hear, I am bewildered by what I see.

4 My heart falters, fear makes me tremble; the twilight I longed for has become a horror to me.

5 They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields!

6 This is what the Lord says to me: "Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.

7 When he sees chariots with teams of horses, riders on donkeys or riders on camels, let him be alert, fully alert."

Isaiah 21:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:5Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:5Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.