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Jeremiah 51:39 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 51 · verse 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.Jeremiah 51:39 · King James Version
Jeremiah 51:39 in context
37And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
38They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.
39In 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.
40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.
41How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- perpetualʻôwlâmproperly, concealedH5769 →
- drunkenshâkarto become tipsyH7937 →
- rejoiceʻâlazto jump for joyH5937 →
- feastsmishtehdrink, by implication, drinkingH4960 →
- sleepyâshênproperly, to be slack or languidH3462 →
- sleepshênâhsleepH8142 →
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The particulars of this copious prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to so often that it could not well be divided into parts, but we must endeavor to collect them under their proper heads. Let us then observe here, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-58