Isaiah 21:5
English Standard Version
5 (A)They prepare the table,
they spread the rugs,[a]
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
(B)oil the shield!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman
Jeremiah 51:57
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57 (A)I will make drunk her officials and her wise men,
(B)her governors, her commanders, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake,
declares (C)the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
Jeremiah 51:39
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39 (A)While they are inflamed (B)I will prepare them a feast
and (C)make them drunk, that they may become merry,
(D)then sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:32
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32 What do I gain if, humanly speaking, (A)I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, (B)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
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Daniel 5:1-5
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The Handwriting on the Wall
5 (A)King Belshazzar (B)made a great feast for a thousand of his (C)lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
2 (D)Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that (E)the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought in (F)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and (G)praised the (H)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5 (I)Immediately (J)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (K)the hand as it wrote.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18
Jeremiah 51:11
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Jeremiah 51:27-28
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27 (A)“Set up a standard on the earth;
(B)blow the trumpet among the nations;
(C)prepare (D)the nations for war against her;
summon against her (E)the kingdoms,
(F)Ararat, Minni, and (G)Ashkenaz;
appoint a (H)marshal against her;
(I)bring up horses like bristling locusts.
28 (J)Prepare (K)the nations for war against her,
the kings of (L)the Medes, (M)with their governors (N)and deputies,
and every (O)land under their dominion.
Isaiah 45:1-3
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Cyrus, God's Instrument
45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
(B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and (D)level the exalted places,[a]
(E)I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 (F)I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, (G)who call you by your name.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:2 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains
Isaiah 22:13-14
English Standard Version
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
(A)“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts (B)has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely (C)this iniquity will not be atoned for you (D)until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah 13:17-18
English Standard Version
17 Behold, (A)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 (B)Their bows will slaughter[a] the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
Isaiah 13:2
English Standard Version
2 On a bare hill (A)raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for (B)them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
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