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.
KJV
In calore eorum ponam potus eorum, et inebriabo eos ut sopiantur, et dormiant somnum sempiternum, et non consurgant, dicit Dominus.
Vulgate
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.
ASV
בְּ/חֻמָּ֞/ם אָשִׁ֣ית אֶת מִשְׁתֵּי/הֶ֗ם וְ/הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי/ם֙ לְמַ֣עַן יַעֲלֹ֔זוּ וְ/יָשְׁנ֥וּ שְׁנַת עוֹלָ֖ם וְ/לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Dan 5:30 — In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Eccl 7:4 — The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
- Isa 21:5 — Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
- Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- Jer 25:16 — And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
- Jer 25:27 — Therefore 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.
- Jer 48:26 — Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
- Jer 51:57 — And 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 h
- Jer 51:57 — And 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 h
- Nah 1:10 — For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Nah 1:10 — For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Nah 3:11 — Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- Ps 13:3 — Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
- Ps 76:5 — The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.