Isaiah 21:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ They prepare the table; they spread the rugs; they eat; they drink. Rise up, commanders; oil the shield!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

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

Common English Bible

⁵ setting the table, spreading the cloth, eating, drinking. “Arise, captains! Polish the shields.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ 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

⁵ Prepare the table: behold in the watch-tower them that eat and drink. Arise, ye princes, take up the shield.

Isaiah 21:5 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.

Isaiah 13:2

On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

Jeremiah 46:3

Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his purpose concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of the Lord, vengeance for his temple.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are inflamed, I will set out their drink and make them drunk, until they become merry and then sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her officials and her sages drunk, also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake, says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”