Jeremiah 51:39
When they become hot with greed, I will make a feast for them; I will make them drunk so they become happy, 1 and then sleep an unending sleep and not wake up—this is Yahweh's declaration— 1
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In Context
38The Babylonians will roar together like young lions. They will growl like lion cubs. 1
40I will send them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats. 1
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Look at me and answer me, Yahweh my God! 1 Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death. 1
Isaiah 21:4My heart pounds; I shake with fear. 1 Twilight was my desire, but it brought me terror. 1
Jeremiah 25:27Yahweh said to me, “Now you must say to them, 'Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, says this: Drink and become drunk, then vomit, fall down, and do not rise before the sword that I am sending among you.'
Jeremiah 51:57For I will make her princes, her sages, her officials, and her soldiers drunk, 1 and they will sleep in an unending sleep and never wake up 1 —this is the King's declaration: Yahweh of hosts is his name. 1
Daniel 5:30That night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed,
Nahum 3:11You also will become drunk; you will try to hide, 1 and you will also look for a refuge from your 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 →