Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 21:5
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They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
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Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, [and] anoint the shield.
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They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
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Isaiah 21
3 Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
4 My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
6 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees.
7 When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
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