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.”
And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
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.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
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Cross-References
“Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;”
“At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.”
“And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.”
“My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.”