Jeremiah 51:39 “While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I wil…”

Jeremiah 51:39

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“their heat”

Jeremiah 25:27 Isaiah 22:12–14 Nahum 1:10 Nahum 3:11 Daniel 5:1–4 Daniel 5:30

Jeremiah 25:27 · BSB

“Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

Isaiah 22:12–14 · BSB

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

Nahum 1:10 · BSB

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Nahum 3:11 · BSB

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Daniel 5:1–4 · BSB

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Daniel 5:30 · BSB

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

“and sleep”

Jeremiah 51:57 Psalm 13:3 Psalm 76:5 Psalm 76:6

Jeremiah 51:57 · BSB

I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

Psalm 13:3 · BSB

Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

Psalm 76:5 · BSB

The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.

Psalm 76:6 · BSB

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.

Also

Jeremiah 48:26

Jeremiah 48:26 · BSB

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

38They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.

40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

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