Isaiah 21:5

New American Bible - revised edition

They set the table, spread out the rugs; they eat, they drink. Rise up, O princes, oil the shield!

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, upon you be neither dew nor rain, nor surging from the deeps! Defiled there the warriors’ shields, the shield of Saul—no longer anointed with oil!

Isaiah 13:2

Upon the bare mountains set up a signal; cry out to them, Beckon for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

Jeremiah 46:3

Prepare buckler and shield! move forward to battle!

Jeremiah 51:11

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers; The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his resolve is Babylon’s destruction. Yes, it is retribution from the Lord, retribution for his temple.

Jeremiah 51:39

When they are parched, I will set drink before them to make them drunk, that they may be overcome with everlasting sleep, never to awaken— oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

I will make her princes and sages drunk, with her governors, officers, and warriors, so that they sleep an everlasting sleep, never to awaken—oracle of the King, whose name is Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If at Ephesus I fought with beasts, so to speak, what benefit was it to me? If the dead are not raised: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”