They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 21:5 in context
Isaiah 21:2–8
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A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.
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Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see.
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My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
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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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For the Lord said to me, “Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.
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When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”
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He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.
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