Isaiah 21:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ Prepare the table. Eat, drink ye chiefs. Having arisen prepare shields.

² [J] On a mount in the plain, erect a standard; raise the voice to them; beckon with the hand. Open princes!

¹⁷ Behold I am raising up against you the Medes, who disregard silver and have no need of gold. ¹⁸ They shall break the bows of the young men, and on your infants they will have no compassion; nor will their eyes spare thee for thy children.

¹³ yet they indulged themselves in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and sacrificing sheep, that they might eat flesh and drink wine, saying, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." ¹⁴ Yes, these were their undisguised expressions, in the hearing of the Lord of hosts, therefore this sin will not be forgiven you till you die.

¹ Thus saith the Lord God, For mine anointed, for Cyrus, [whose right hand I have taken hold of that nations may listen before him] I will break the power of kings; I will open gates before him, and cities shall not be shut up. ² I will go before thee and level mountains; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and burst asunder the bars of iron; ³ and give thee treasures of darkness; deep, hidden, unseen treasures I will disclose to thee, that thou mayst know, that I, the Lord thy God, who calleth thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.

¹¹ [p] Prepare the arrows. Fill the quivers. The Lord hath stirred up the spirit of the king of the Medes. For his wrath is against Babylon to destroy her utterly. For it is the vengeance of the Lord; the avengement of his people.

²⁷ Erect a standard in the land. Sound a trumpet among the nations. ²⁸ Prepare the nations against her. Issue orders against her. Carry them, kings, from me even to the Achanazeans. Erect towers against her. Bring up against her, cavalry like a multitude of locusts. Bring up against her nations, the king of the Medes and of the whole earth; his generals and all the leaders of his army.

³⁹ in their heat I will give them a draught and make them drunk; that they may be stupefied and sleep a perpetual sleep and never awake, saith the Lord.

⁵⁷ For misery is come upon Babylon. Her warriors are taken. Their bow is confounded; for God rendereth them retribution. [J] The Lord rendereth them retribution; and he will make utterly drunk her leaders and her wise men and her generals, saith the king whose name is The Lord Almighty.

¹ King Baltasar made a great supper for his thousand grandees and wine was set before the thousand. ² And as he was drinking, Baltasar gave an order upon tasting the wine, to bring the vessels of gold and silver which Nabuchodonosar his father had brought out of the temple at Jerusalem; and that the king and his nobles, and his concubines and his wives should drink out of them. ³ Accordingly the vessels of gold and silver which had been taken out of the temple of God at Jerusalem were brought, and the king and his nobles and his concubines and his wives drank out of them. ⁴ And having drunk wine they praised the gods of gold and silver and brass and wood and stone. ⁵ At that very hour there came forth fingers of a man's hand and wrote over against the lamp, on the plaistering of the wall of the king's palace. And the king beheld with astonishment the joint of the hand that was writing.

³² "if I as a man had fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is that to me if the dead are not raised up? Let us eat and drink, for to morrow we die."