Jeremiah 51:39
In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not — an affirmation of Jehovah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
38Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions' whelps.
40I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.
Cross References
Psalms 13:3Look attentively; Answer me, O Jehovah, my God, Enlighten mine eyes, lest I sleep in death,
Isaiah 21:4Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
Jeremiah 25:27And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts God of Israel, Drink ye, yea drink abundantly, And vomit, and fall, and rise not, Because of the sword that I am sending among you.
Jeremiah 51:57And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not — an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.
Daniel 5:30In that night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans is slain,
Nahum 3:11Even thou art drunken, thou art hidden, Even thou dost seek a strong place, because of an 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 →