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Jeremiah 51:39

World English Bible

When they are heated, I will make their feast,
and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
and sleep a perpetual sleep,
and not wake up,” says Yahweh.

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Jeremiah 51:39 in other translations

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.

Jeremiah 51:39 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 51:39 in context

  1. 37Babylon will become heaps,
    a dwelling place for jackals,
    an astonishment, and a hissing,
    without inhabitant.
  2. 38They will roar together like young lions.
    They will growl as lions’ cubs.
  3. 39When they are heated, I will make their feast,
    and I will make them drunk,
    that they may rejoice,
    and sleep a perpetual sleep,
    and not wake up,” says Yahweh.
  4. 40“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams with male goats.
  5. 41“How Sheshach is taken!
    How the praise of the whole earth seized!
    How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!