Holy Scripture
Isaiah 21:5
A church father on this verse
“[Daniel 5:30-31] "On that same night Belshazzar, King of the Chaldeans, was slain, and Darius the Mede succeeded to his kingdom at the age of sixty-two." Josephus writes in his tenth book of the Jewish Antiquities that when Babylon had been laid under siege by the Medes and Persians, that is, by Darius and Cyrus, Bels…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5Prepare the table, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and prepare your shields.
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In context
3Therefore are my loins filled with feebleness, and pangs have seized me as a travailing woman: I dealt wrongfully that I might not hear; I hastened that I might not see.
4My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
— Isaiah 21:5 —
6For thus said the Lord to me, Go and station a watchman for thyself, and declare whatever thou shalt see.
7And I saw two mounted horsemen, and a rider on an ass, and a rider on a camel.