Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
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Jerome
AD 420
And in testimony of the fact that Babylon was captured during a banquet, Isaiah clearly exhorts it to battle when he writes, “Babylon, my beloved, has become a strange spectacle to me: set the table and behold in the mirrors those who eat and drink; rise up, you princes, and snatch up your shields!”
