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, saith Jehovah.
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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 Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Isaiah 21:4My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
Jeremiah 25:27And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah 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 princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, 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 Belshazzar the Chaldean king was slain.
Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hidden; thou also shalt 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 →