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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בְּחֻמָּ֞םbe.chu.Mamwhen getting heated theyH2552 →
אָשִׁ֣ית'a.ShitI will makeH7896 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗םmish.tei.Hemfeast theirH4960 →
וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙ve.hish.kar.Timand I will make drunk themH7937 →
לְמַ֣עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
יַעֲלֹ֔זוּya.'a.Lo.zuthey may celebrateH5937 →
וְיָשְׁנ֥וּve.ya.she.Nuand they will sleepH3462 →
שְׁנַת־she.nat-a sleep ofH8142 →
עוֹלָ֖םo.LamperpetuityH5769 →
וְלֹ֣אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
יָקִ֑יצוּya.Ki.tzuthey will awakeH6974 →
נְאֻ֖םne.'Um[the] utterance ofH5002 →
יְהוָֽה׃Yah.wehYahwehH3068 →

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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.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.’Psalms 76:5The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.Isaiah 21:5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!Nahum 3:11You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.Isaiah 22:12–14On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Ecclesiastes 7:4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.Jeremiah 25:16And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”Psalms 76:5–6The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.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.Isaiah 21:4–5My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.Daniel 5:30That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,Psalms 13:3Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,Daniel 5:1–4Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.Psalms 76:6At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both horse and rider lie stunned.Habakkuk 2:5and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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