Jeremiah 51:39 - The Scriptures 1998

³⁹ “In their heat I prepare their feasts. And I shall make them drunk, so that they rejoice, and sleep a neverending sleep and not awake,” declares יהוה.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ When the revelers are inflamed [with wine and lust during their drinking bouts], I will prepare them a feast [of My wrath] and make them drunk, that they may rejoice and fall asleep to a perpetual sleep and not waken, says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

³⁹ They are ready to devour, so I’ll prepare the feast and mix the drinks! But after their noisy drunkenness, they will fall fast asleep. They will sleep forever, never to get up, declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ In their heat, I will give them a drink, and I will inebriate them, so that they become drowsy, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and do not rise up, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:39 Cross References

Psalm 13:3

Look! Answer me, O יהוה  my Elohim; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep in death;

Jeremiah 25:27

“And you shall say to them, ‘Thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 48:26

“Make him drunk, because he has made himself great against יהוה. Mo’aḇ

Jeremiah 51:57

“And I shall make her rulers drunk, and her wise men, her governors, and her deputies, and her mighty men. And they shall sleep a lasting sleep, and not awake,” declares the Sovereign, whose Name is יהוה  of hosts.

Daniel 5:30

In that night Bĕ

Nahum 1:10

Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.

Nahum 3:11

You too are to become drunk, you are to go into hiding. You too are to seek refuge from the enemy.

Nahum 3:18

Your shepherds have slumbered, O sovereign of Ashshur, your nobles lie down to rest. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and no one gathers them.