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They set the table,
    spread out the rugs;
    they eat, they drink.[a](A)
Rise up, O princes,
    oil the shield!
For thus my Lord said to me:
    Go, station a watchman,
    let him tell what he sees.
If he sees a chariot,
    a pair of horses,
Someone riding a donkey,
    someone riding a camel,
Then let him pay heed,
    very close heed.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:5 Babylon is destroyed while its leaders are feasting; cf. Dn 5. Oil the shield: shields were oiled and greased so as to divert blows more easily; cf. 2 Sm 1:21.