Jeremiah 51:39

Jeremiah 51:39 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)But while they are aroused, I will set out a feast for them and make them drunk, so that they shout with laughter— then sleep forever and not awake,” declares the Lord.
• New King James Version (NKJV)In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awake,” says the Lord.
• New Living Translation (NLT)And while they lie inflamed with all their wine, I will prepare a different kind of feast for them. I will make them drink until they fall asleep, and they will never wake up again,” says the Lord.

Context of Jeremiah 51:39

37and Babylon shall become a heap of ruins, the haunt of jackals, a horror and a hissing, without inhabitant. 38"They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions' cubs. While they are inflamed I will prepare them a feast and make them drunk, that they may become merry, then sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the Lord. 40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams and male goats. 41"How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 51:39 word by word

בְּחֻמָּ֞ם אָשִׁ֣ית אֶת־מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗ם וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙ לְמַ֣עַן יַעֲלֹ֔זוּ וְיָשְׁנ֥וּ שְׁנַת־עוֹלָ֖ם וְלֹ֣א יָקִ֑יצוּ נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• In their heatחֹםchôm · heatH2527
• I will makeשִׁיתshîyth · to set: makeH7896
• their feastsמִשְׁתֶּהmishteh · feastH4960
• and I will make them drunkenשָׁכַרshâkar · be drunkH7937
• that they may rejoiceעָלַז‛âlaz · to exultH5937
• and sleepיָשֵׁןyâshên · to sleepH3462
• a perpetualעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769
• sleepשֵׁנָהshênâh shênâ' · sleepH8142
• and not wakeקִיץqûts · to awakeH6974
• saithנְאֻםne'ûm · utteranceH5002
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068

Cross-references for Jeremiah 51:39

• Jeremiah 25:27"Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more, because of the sword that I am sending among you.'
• Isaiah 21:4My heart staggers; horror has appalled me; the twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
• Isaiah 22:12In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
• Daniel 5:1King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
• Daniel 3:11And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into a burning fiery furnace.
• Jeremiah 51:57I will make drunk her officials and her wise men, her governors, her commanders, and her warriors; they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.
• Psalms 13:3Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death,
• Psalms 76:5The stouthearted were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; all the men of war were unable to use their hands.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 51:39

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 39In their heat I will make their feasts - It was on the night of a feast day, while their hearts were heated with wine and revelry, that Babylon was taken; see Daniel 5:1-3. This feast was held in honor of the goddess Sheshach, (or perhaps of Bel), who is mentioned, Jeremiah 51:41, as being taken with her worshippers. As it was in the night the city was taken, many had retired to rest, and never awoke; slain in their beds, they slept a perpetual sleep.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 39In their heat … - While, like so many young lions, they are in the full glow of excitement over their prey, God prepares for them a drinking-bout to end in the sleep of death. Compare Daniel 5:1.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 38-40The Lord announced he would use wine to change the lion, which once terrorized and destroyed nations (Jeremiah 5:6; 25:38; 49:19), into a lamb that is easy to control. Wine as a tool of wrath was usually symbolic (Jeremiah 25:15–29), but here it was real (see Daniel 5).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 38-3938-39. The capture of Babylon was effected on the night of a festival in honor of its idols. roar ... yell--The Babylonians were shouting in drunken revelry (compare Da 5:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 51:39

• Death
• Persia
• War

In the dictionaries

• Death
• Device
• Empty
• Hold
• Mount
• Prophecy
• Ezekiel
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah (2)
• Perpetual; Perpetually; Perpetuity

Commentaries on Jeremiah 51

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings