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They set the tables;
    they spread the carpets;[a]
        they eat, they drink!

Get up, you officers!
    Oil the shields!”

The Fall of Babylon

For this is what the Lord told me:

“Go post a lookout.
        Have him report what he sees.
When he sees chariots, each man[b] with a pair of horses,
    riders on donkeys or riders on[c] camels,
let him pay attention,
    full attention.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:5 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX lacks this line
  2. Isaiah 21:7 So 1QIsaa 4QIsaa; cf. v. 9; MT LXX lack each man
  3. Isaiah 21:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads train of donkeys or train of