Jeremiah 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 hosts.
KJV
Et inebriabo principes ejus, et sapientes ejus, et duces ejus, et magistratus ejus, et fortes ejus : et dormient somnum sempiternum, et non expergiscentur, ait Rex (Dominus exercituum nomen ejus).
Vulgate
And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
ASV
וְ֠/הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי שָׂרֶ֨י/הָ וַ/חֲכָמֶ֜י/הָ פַּחוֹתֶ֤י/הָ וּ/סְגָנֶ֨י/הָ֙ וְ/גִבּוֹרֶ֔י/הָ וְ/יָשְׁנ֥וּ שְׁנַת עוֹלָ֖ם וְ/לֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ נְאֻ֨ם הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָא֖וֹת שְׁמֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Hebrew
16 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.
- Hab 2:16 — Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
- Isa 21:5 — Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
- Isa 44:25 — That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;
- 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 46:18 — As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
- Jer 48:15 — Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
- Jer 48:15 — Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
- Jer 50:35 — A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
- Jer 51:23 — I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.
- Jer 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.
- Jer 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.
- 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 3:18 — Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- 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.
- Zech 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast