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


In Context

2 A hard vision hath been declared to me, The treacherous dealer is dealing treacherously, And the destroyer is destroying. Go up, O Elam, besiege, O Media, All its sighing I have caused to cease.

3 Therefore filled have been my loins with great pain, Pangs have seized me as pangs of a travailing woman, I have been bent down by hearing, I have been troubled by seeing.

4 Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

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

6 For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

7 And he hath seen a chariot — a couple of horsemen, The rider of an ass, the rider of a camel, And he hath given attention — He hath increased attention!

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 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 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.