Jeremiah 51:39
When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age-abiding sleep and not wake,—Declareth Yahweh.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
38Together, like wild lions, shall they roar,—They have growled like lions’ whelps.
40I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter,—As rams with he-goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Have regard! answer me O Yahweh my God,—Light up mine eyes, lest I sleep on into death:
Isaiah 21:4My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,—My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.
Jeremiah 25:27Therefore shalt thou say unto them—Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts God of Israel,—Drink ye and be drunken, and vomit, and fall and rise not,—because of the sword which I am sending between you.
Jeremiah 51:57Then will I make drunk—Her princes and her wise men, Her governors, and her deputies and her heroes, And they shall sleep an age-abiding sleep, and not wake,—Declareth the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name.
Daniel 5:30In that night, was slain—Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.
Nahum 3:11Thou too, shalt be drunken, thou shalt hide thyself,—thou too, shalt seek shelter from the foe:
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 →