Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled – the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
Isaiah 21:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled – the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Signal with your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the Lord’s vengeance, vengeance for his temple.
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. , Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the King’s declaration; the Lord of Armies is his name.
If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus as a mere man, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. ,