Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
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Gill's Exposition
Prepare the table,.... Set it, spread it, furnish it with all kind of provisions, as at a feast; and such an one Belshazzar made, the night the city was taken: these words are directed to him by his…
Barnes' Notes
Prepare the table - This verse is one of the most striking and remarkable that occurs in this prophecy, or indeed in any part of Isaiah. It is language supposed to be spoken in Babylon. The first…
We had one burden of Babylon before (ch. 13); here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit thus to possess his people with the belief of this event by line upon line, because Babylon…
Cambridge Bible
The prophet contrasts his own lonely vigils with the careless security of the Babylonian revellers (cf. Daniel 5; Jer 51:39; Isa 14:11).
Prepare the table, &c. Render as in R.V. They prepare the…
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