KJV 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.
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Jeremiah 51:39
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
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, says Yahweh.
ASV 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.
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 51
36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38 They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39 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.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41 How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
42 The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.
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בְּחֻמָּ֞םH2552 · cha.mamto warmאָשִׁ֣יתH7896 · shitto set: makeאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗םH4960 · mish.tehfeastוְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙H7937 · sha.kharbe drunkלְמַ֣עַןH4616 · ma.anbecauseיַעֲלֹ֔זוּH5937 · a.lazto exultוְיָשְׁנ֥וּH3462 · ya.shento sleepשְׁנַת־H8142 · she.nahsleepעוֹלָ֖םH5769 · o.lamforever: enduringוְלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotיָקִ֑יצוּH6974 · qutsto awakeנְאֻ֖םH5002 · ne.umutteranceיְהוָֽה׃H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORD
Cross-references
Jeremiah 51:57And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise [men], her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts.Jeremiah 25:27Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.Nahum 1:10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.Isaiah 22:12-14And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:Nahum 3:11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.Daniel 5:1-4Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.Psalm 13:3Consider [and] hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the [sleep of] death;Jeremiah 48:26Make ye him drunken: for he magnified [himself] against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.Isaiah 21:4-5My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.Daniel 5:30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.Psalm 76:5-6The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
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