Jeremiah 51:39
What does Jeremiah 51:39 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 51:39 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When 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 · 1611In 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 · 1901When 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not--an affirmation of Jehovah.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752In their heat I will set them drink: and I will make them drunk, that they may slumber, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and awake no more, saith the Lord.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.
Context
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;
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