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Jeremiah 51:39

Jeremiah chapter 51 · verse 39 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.38They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.

v.39This passage

v.40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Nahum 3:11

    Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

  • Daniel 5:1

    Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

  • Isaiah 21:4

    My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

  • Nahum 1:10

    For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • Jeremiah 48:26

    Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

  • Psalms 13:3

    Considerand answer me, O Jehovah my God: Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;