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Isaiah 21:5

Isaiah chapter 21 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.

Context

v.4My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

v.5This passage

v.6For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman; let him declare what he seeth:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Daniel 5:1

    Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

  • Isaiah 45:1

    Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

  • Jeremiah 51:39

    When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:32

    If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

  • Isaiah 13:17

    Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

  • Jeremiah 51:57

    And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.