Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
38They shall roar together like lions, they shall shake their manes like young lions.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, and like rams with kids.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
Isaiah 21:4My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Dring ye, and be drunken, and vomit: and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword, which I shall send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make her princes drunk. and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the whose name is Lord of hosts.
Daniel 5:30The same night Baltasar the Chaldean king was slain.
Nahum 3:11Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised: and thou shalt seek help 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 →