Isaiah 21:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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 13:2

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.

Jeremiah 46:3

Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Jeremiah 51:11

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.

Jeremiah 51:39

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.

Jeremiah 51:57

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.

1 Corinthians 15:32

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.