Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make their feast. And I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says LORD.
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In Context
38They shall roar together like young lions. They shall growl as lions' whelps.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Consider [and] answer me, O LORD my God. Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the death,
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her rulers and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the King, whose name is LORD of hosts.
Daniel 5:30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Nahum 3:11Thou also shall be drunken. Thou shall be hid. Thou also shall seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 51:2-59
The Judgment of Babylon. ( b. c. 595.) 1 Thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind; 2 And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about. 3 Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her… Read the whole commentary →