Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!"
New American Standard Bible
“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”
King James Version
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Holman Bible
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
A Conservative Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink. Rise up, ye rulers, anoint the shield.
American Standard Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Amplified
They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”
Bible in Basic English
They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
Darby Translation
Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
Julia Smith Translation
Set in order the table; view the watch-tower; eat, drink: arise ye chiefs, anoint the shield.
King James 2000
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear [the] shield!
Modern King James verseion
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink; arise, rulers. Anoint the shield.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."
NET Bible
Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
New Heart English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye thought to prepare the table - spread the mat - eat - drink! -- Arise ye chieftains anoint the shield!
Webster
Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
World English Bible
They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
Youngs Literal Translation
Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
Themes
Anointing » Was used for » Preparing weapons for war
military Arms » Before using » Anointed
Babylon » Predictions respecting » Destruction of
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Denunciations against babylon
Persia » Prophecies concerning
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 21:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Fall Of Babylon
4 And as for my heart, horror has terrified me; the twilight I longed for has started to make me tremble. 5 They set the tables; they spread the carpets; they eat, they drink! Get up, you officers! Oil the shields!" 6 For this is what the LORD told me: "Go post a lookout. Have him report what he sees.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 51:39
When they're excited I'll serve them their banquet, and make them drunk until they're merry. They'll sleep forever and won't wake up," declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 51:57
I'll make their leaders, their wise men, their governors, their deputies, and their warriors drunk so that they sleep forever and don't wake up," declares the King whose name is the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Isaiah 13:2
"Raise a banner on a bare hilltop! Cry out loud to them! Give a wave of the hand, signaling for them to enter the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13:17-18
Watch out! I'm stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.
Isaiah 22:13-14
But look! There is joy and festivity, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating meat and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, you say, because we die tomorrow."
Isaiah 45:1-3
This is what the LORD says to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, as I strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him and gates that cannot keep closed:
Jeremiah 51:11
Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes he has decided to destroy Babylon. Indeed, it's the LORD's vengeance, vengeance for his Temple.
Jeremiah 51:27-28
Lift up a battle standard in the land. Blow a trumpet among the nations. Consecrate the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz against her. Appoint a commander against her, bring up horses like bristling locusts.
Daniel 5:1-5
King Belshazzar put on a great festival for a thousand of his officials. He joined all one thousand of them in getting drunk.
1 Corinthians 15:32
If I have fought with wild animals in Ephesus from merely human motives, what do I get out of it? If the dead are not raised, "Let's eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."