Therefore are my [a]loins filled with sorrow: sorrows have taken me as the sorrows of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down when I heard it, and I was amazed when I saw it.

Mine heart failed: fearfulness troubled me: the night [b]of my pleasures hath he turned into fear unto me.

Prepare thou the table: watch in the watch tower: eat, drink: [c]arise, ye princes, anoint the shield:

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 21:3 This the Prophet speaketh in the person of the Babylonians.
  2. Isaiah 21:4 He prophesieth the death of Belshazzar, as Dan. 5:30, who in the midst of his pleasures was destroyed.
  3. Isaiah 21:5 While they are eating and drinking, they shall be commanded to run to their weapons.

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