When they are inflamed, 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 the LORD.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Jeremiah 51:39 in context
Jeremiah 51:36–42
36
Therefore the LORD says:
“Behold, I will plead your cause,
and take vengeance for you.
I will dry up her sea,
and make her fountain dry.
37
Babylon will become heaps,
a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
without inhabitant.
38
They will roar together like young lions.
They will growl as lions’ cubs.
39
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When they are inflamed, 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 the LORD.
40
“I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams with male goats.
41
“How Sheshach is taken!
How the praise of the whole earth is seized!
How Babylon has become a desolation among the nations!
42
The sea has come up on Babylon.
She is covered with the multitude of its waves.
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