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Isaiah 21:5

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

KJV

Pone mensam, contemplare in specula comedentes et bibentes : surgite, principes, arripite clypeum.

Vulgate

ἑτοίμασον τὴν τράπεζαν, φάγετε, πίετε· ἀναστάντες οἱ ἄρχοντες ἑτοιμάσατε θυρεούς,

LXX

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

ASV

עָרֹ֧ךְ הַ/שֻּׁלְחָ֛ן צָפֹ֥ה הַ/צָּפִ֖ית אָכ֣וֹל שָׁתֹ֑ה ק֥וּמוּ הַ/שָּׂרִ֖ים מִשְׁח֥וּ מָגֵֽן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

י
y
noun · 71×
יְצַ֥ף
ytsp
verb · 47×
יַּעֲרֹ֖ךְ
y'rk
verb · 76×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
ךָֽ
k
verb · 69×
ם
m
verb · 811×
מָגֵ֣ן
mgn
noun · 62×
צָּפִ֖ית
tspyt
noun · 1×
שְׁתּ֖וֹת
shtvt
verb · 216×
שָׂרֵ֣י
shry
noun · 420×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 2Sam 1:21 — Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had
  • Dan 5:1 — Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
  • Hab 2:1 — I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
  • Hab 2:5 — Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations,
  • Jer 46:3 — Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
  • Jer 51:11 — Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD, the
  • Jer 51:39 — In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
  • Jer 51:57 — And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of h
  • Ps 127:1 — Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.