Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I will prepare them a drink, And will make them drunk, so that they shall rejoice, And then sleep an everlasting sleep, And awake no more, saith Jehovah.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
38Together shall they roar like lions; They shall yell like lions' whelps.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, Like rams with he-goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Look down and hear me, O LORD, my God! Enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, Terror hath seized upon me; The evening of my desire is changed into horror.
Jeremiah 25:27And say to them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit, and fall to rise no more because of the sword which I am about to send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, Her prefects, and her governors, and her mighty men; And they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, And shall no more awake, saith the King, Whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
Daniel 5:30In the same night was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldaeans, slain;
Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt drink to the full; Thou, too, shalt be hidden; Thou 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 →