Jeremiah 51:39
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
Jeremiah 25:27“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek 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 →