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


In Context

2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler plundereth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all her sighing have I made to cease.

3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear to me.

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

6 For thus hath the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:5They set the tables, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers, oil the shields!

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 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.