Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
Isaiah 21:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, [and having] set the watchers [the revelers take no other precaution], they eat, they drink. Arise, you princes, and oil your shields [for your deadly foe is at the gates]! American Standard Version (1901) They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. Common English Bible setting the table, spreading the cloth, eating, drinking. “Arise, captains! Polish the shields.” Catholic Public Domain Version Prepare the table. Contemplate, from a place of observation, those who eat and drink. Rise up, you leaders! Take up the shield! Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Prepare the table: behold in the watch-tower them that eat and drink. Arise, ye princes, take up the shield. |
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his device is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.