OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 21:5

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They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

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Verse 5. Drink. Persians refresh yourselves.—Take up. Hebrew “anoint.” He may also allude to the Babylonians, who were feasting.

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