‘Then you are to say to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.”
Jeremiah 51:39 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they celebrate. , Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the Lord’s declaration. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord. |
‘Then you are to say to them, “This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.”
‘Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord. Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughing-stock.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep for ever and never wake up. This is the King’s declaration; the Lord of Armies is his name.
For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.
You also will become drunk; you will hide. You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together.