Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
38They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Consider, answer me, O Jehovah my God! lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;
Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, horror affrighteth me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into trembling unto me.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunken, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Daniel 5:30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from 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 →