Jeremiah 51:39
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 51:39 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,
- Psalms 76:5The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
- Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Jeremiah 25:27“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.’
- Jeremiah 48:26“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.
- Jeremiah 51:57I 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.
- Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,
- Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
- Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
- Nahum 3:18O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
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