Jeremiah 51:57
Then 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.
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Psalms 76:5The valiant of heart have become a spoil, They have slumbered their sleep, And none of the men of might have found their hands.
Isaiah 37:36Then went forth the messenger of Yahweh, and smote—in the camp of the Assyrians—a hundred and eighty-five thousand,—and when men arose early in the morning, lo! they were all, dead bodies!
Jeremiah 46:18As I live, saith the King, Yahweh of hosts, is his name: Though Like Tabor among mountains, Like Carmel, Into the sea shall he go!
Jeremiah 51:39When 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.
Daniel 5:30In that night, was slain—Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans.
Habakkuk 2:15Alas! for him who causeth his neighbour to drink, from the goblet of thy fury, and also, making him drunk,—to the end thou mayest gloat over their parts of shame.
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 →