Jeremiah 51:39
But while their passions are aroused, I will serve them a banquet and get them drunk. They'll celebrate so much that they'll pass out and won't ever wake up, declares the Lord.
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38The Babylonians will roar together like powerful lions and growl like lion cubs.
40I will take them down like lambs to be slaughtered, like rams and goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Think about this, and answer me, Lord my God. Give me back my strength, otherwise I'm going to die,
Isaiah 21:4My mind falters; I shake in panic. The night I looked forward to has become terrifying.
Jeremiah 25:27Tell them this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Drink, make yourselves drunk, and vomit. Because of the war you'll be killed, falling down never to get up again.
Jeremiah 51:57I will make her leaders and wise men drunk, along with her commanders, officers, and soldiers. Then they will pass out, and won't ever wake up, declares the King, whose name is the Lord Almighty.
Daniel 5:30On that very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was killed
Nahum 3:11You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe 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 →