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Jeremiah 51:39

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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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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 39

The prophet, in this chapter, goes on with the prediction of Babylon's fall, to which other prophets also bore witness. He is very copious and lively in describing the foresight God had given him of it, for the encouragement of the pious captives, whose deliverance depended upon it and was to be the result of it. Here is, I. The record of Babylon's doom, with the particulars of it, intermixed with the grounds of God's controversy with her, many aggravations of her fall, and great encouragements given thence to the Israel of God, that suffered such hard things by her (v. 1-58). II. The representation and ratification of this by the throwing of a copy of this prophecy into the river Euphrates (Jer 51:59-64).

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Strong's Concordancev. 39

חֹם (chôm, H2527) — heat שִׁית (shîyth, H7896) — to place (in a very wide application) מִשְׁתֶּה (mishteh, H4960) — drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally)… שָׁכַר (shâkar, H7937) — to become tipsy; in a qualified sense, to satiate with astimulating drink or… עָלַז (ʻâlaz, H5937) — to jump for joy, i.e. exult יָשֵׁן (yâshên, H3462) — properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die);… עוֹלָם (ʻôwlâm, H5769) — properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or… שֵׁנָה (shênâh, H8142) — sleep קוּץ (qûwts, H6974) — to awake (literally or figuratively) נְאֻם (nᵉʼum, H5002) — an oracle יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, H3068) — Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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Jeremiah 51:57rank 5

I 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 25:27rank 4

“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.’

Nahum 3:11rank 3

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

Nahum 1:10rank 3

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Jeremiah 48:26rank 2

“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.

Daniel 5:30rank 2

That very night Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain,

Psalms 13:3rank 2

Consider me and respond, O LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death,

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