Isa 21:5-9 | ESV | STEP | They prepare the table , they spread the rugs , they eat , they drink . Arise , O princes ; oil the shield !

‏ Isaiah 21:5-9

5 ^aThey prepare the table,
they spread the rugs, ^{▼▼Or they set the watchman}
they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
^coil the shield!
6 For thus the Lord said to me:
“Go, set a watchman;
let him announce what he sees.
7 When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs,
riders on donkeys, riders on camels,
let him listen diligently,
very diligently.”
8 Then he who saw cried out: ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll, Syriac; Masoretic Text Then a lion cried out, or Then he cried out like a lion}
^e“Upon a watchtower I stand, O Lord,
continually by day,
and at my post I am stationed
whole nights.
9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
^fAnd he answered,
^g“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
^hand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”