Jeremiah 51:39

Jeremiah · Old Testament · Chapter 51

“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

What Does Jeremiah 51:39 Mean?

Jeremiah 51:39 is found in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 51, verse 39 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 19 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (19)

These passages are connected to Jeremiah 51:39 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Psalms 13:3“Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;”Jeremiah 51:57“And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.”Psalms 76:5“The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.”Isaiah 21:5“Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.”Jeremiah 25:27“Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.”Jeremiah 48:26“Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.”Daniel 5:30“In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.”Ecclesiastes 7:4“The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.”Isaiah 22:12“And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:”Jeremiah 25:16“And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.”Nahum 1:10“For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.”Nahum 3:11“Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.”Psalms 76:6“At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.”Isaiah 21:4“My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.”Isaiah 47:11“Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.”Jeremiah 50:35“A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the LORD, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.”Daniel 5:1“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.”Nahum 3:18“Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.”Habakkuk 2:5“Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:”

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