Jeremiah 51:39
When they are inflamed, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the LORD.
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In Context
38They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Behold, and answer me, LORD, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Jeremiah 25:27“You shall tell them, ‘The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send amongst you.”’
Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies.
Daniel 5:30In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
Nahum 3:11You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of 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 →