Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
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In Context
38They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.
40I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Let my voice come before you, and give me an answer, O Lord my God; let your light be shining on me, so that the sleep of death may not overtake me;
Isaiah 21:4My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.
Jeremiah 25:27And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, was put to death.
Nahum 3:11And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.
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 →