Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Commentaries

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

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 …

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower.—These words (a historical infinitive) are better understood as indicative:

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Prepare the table. These verbs may be taken for participles; as if he had said, “While they were preparing the table and appointing a gua…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Prepare the table Set it, spread it, furnish it with all kind of provisions, as at a feast; and such an one Belshazzar ma…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Babylon was a flat country, abundantly watered. The destruction of Babylon, so often prophesied by Isaiah, was typical of the destruction of the gr…

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

ThomasAquinas

13th Century
Catholic
13th Century
  1. The burden of the desert of the sea. Here the prophet threatens the enemies who oppre ed Israel by taking their goods, ev…

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