American King James Version
"Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield. "
— Isaiah 21:5, American King James Version
“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.”
“They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield. ”
“They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!”
“Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!”
“Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.”
“They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.”
“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.”
A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous dealer deals treacherously, and the spoiler spoils. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman that travails: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure has he turned into fear to me.
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
For thus has the LORD said to me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he sees.
And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he listened diligently with much heed:
And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: