Isaiah 21:4-6

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My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been ^[a]turned into fear and trembling for me.^(A)
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They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”

⁶This is what the Lord says to me,

“Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 21:4 The vision reveals the events to occur at the feast of Belshazzar—the defilement of the golden articles taken from God’s temple, the handwriting on the wall, the murder of Babylon’s great king.