Isaiah 21:5
King James Version (KJV)
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
In context
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
Isaiah 21:5 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
- WEB World English Bible
- They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
- ASV American Standard Version
- They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Arrange the table, watch in the watch-tower, Eat, drink, rise, ye heads, anoint the shield,
- DBY Darby Translation
- Prepare the table, appoint the watch; eat, drink: arise, ye princes, anoint the shield.
- WBS Webster Bible
- Prepare the table, watch in the watch-tower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.