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"Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!"
— Isaiah 21:5, NET Bible
“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!”
“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.”
I have received a distressing message:“The deceiver deceives, the destroyer destroys. Attack, you Elamites! Lay siege, you Medes! I will put an end to all the groaning!”
For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.
My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.
Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
For this is what the Lord has told me:“Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.
When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”
Then the guard cries out:“On the watchtower, O Lord, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.