Jeremiah 51:39
In their excitement I will prepare their mishtim (feasts), 1 and I will make them shikkor, that they may rejoice, 1 and sleep shenat olam (a perpetual sleep), 1 and never awake, saith Hashem. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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In Context
38They shall roar together like lions; 1 they shall growl as cubs of arayot (lions). 1
Cross References
Psalms 13:3How long shall I take counsel in my nefesh, 1 having sorrow in my lev daily? 1 How long shall mine oyev be exalted over me? 1
Isaiah 21:4My lev panted, 1 fearfulness seized upon me; 1 the neshef (twilight) of my longing 1 hath become unto me as kharadah (shuddering horror). 1
Jeremiah 25:27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os Elohei Yisroel: Drink ye, and become shikkor, and vomit, and fall, and rise no more, because of the cherev which I will send among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make shikkor (drunk) her sarim, and her chachamim, 1 her pachot (rulers), and her seganim (officials), and her gibborim; 1 and they shall sleep a shenat olam (perpetual sleep), and never awake, saith HaMelech Hashem Tzva'os Shmo. 1
Daniel 5:30In that night was Belshatzar the king of the Kasdim slain.
Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid, 1 thou also shalt seek maoz from the enemy. 1
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 →