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


In Context

2 A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.

3 Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

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.

7 When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.|

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 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 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.