Jeremiah 51:39
In their heate I will make them feastes, and I wil make them drunken, that they may reioyce, and sleepe a perpetual sleepe, and not wake, sayth the Lord.
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In The King James Version
In Context
38They shall rore together like lions, and yell as the lyons whelpes.
40I wil bring them downe like lambes to the slaughter, and like rams and goates.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Beholde, and heare mee, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleepe not in death:
Isaiah 21:4Mine heart failed: fearefulnesse troubled me: the night of my pleasures hath he turned into feare vnto me.
Jeremiah 25:27Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will sende among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunke her princes, and her wise men, her dukes, and her nobles, and her strong men: and they shall sleepe a perpetuall sleepe, and not wake, sayth the King, whose Name is the Lord of hostes.
Daniel 5:30The same night was Belshazzar the King of the Caldeans slaine.
Nahum 3:11Also thou shalt bee drunken: thou shalt hide thy selfe, and shalt seeke helpe because of the enemie.
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 →