5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields! 6 For this is what the Lord says to me: “Go, post a lookout and have him report what he sees. 7 When he sees chariots with teams of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, fully alert.”
Isaiah 21:5–7
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