Isaiah 21:5

New English Translation

Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:21

O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings! For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled; the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.

Isaiah 13:2

On a bare hill raise a signal flag, shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!

Jeremiah 46:3

“Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle!

Jeremiah 51:11

“Sharpen your arrows! Fill your quivers! The Lord will arouse a spirit of hostility in the kings of Media. For he intends to destroy Babylonia. For that is how the Lord will get his revenge – how he will get his revenge for the Babylonians’ destruction of his temple.

Jeremiah 51:39

When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:57

“I will make her officials and wise men drunk, along with her governors, leaders, and warriors. They will fall asleep forever and never wake up,” says the King whose name is the Lord who rules over all.

1 Corinthians 15:32

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.