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Jeremiah 51

Jer. 51:39 KJV (With Strong’s)

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In their heat
chom (Hebrew #2527)
heat
KJV usage: heat, to be hot (warm).
Pronounce: khome
Origin: from 2552
I will make
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
their feasts
mishteh (Hebrew #4960)
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
KJV usage: banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
Pronounce: mish-teh'
Origin: from 8354
, and I will make them drunken
shakar (Hebrew #7937)
to become tipsy; in a qualified sense, to satiate with a stimulating drink or (figuratively) influence
KJV usage: (be filled with) drink (abundantly), (be, make) drunk(-en), be merry. (Superlative of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
h, that they may rejoice
`alaz (Hebrew #5937)
to jump for joy, i.e. exult
KJV usage: be joyful, rejoice, triumph.
Pronounce: aw-laz'
Origin: a primitive root
, and sleep
yashen (Hebrew #3462)
properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
KJV usage: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
Pronounce: yaw-shane'
Origin: a primitive root
a perpetual
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
sleep
shehah (Hebrew #8142)
from 3462; sleep
KJV usage: sleep.
Pronounce: shay-naw'
Origin: or shena (Psa. 127:2) {shay-naw'}
, and not wake
quwts (Hebrew #6974)
to awake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: arise, (be) (a-)wake, watch.
Pronounce: koots
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep (compare 3364))
, saith
n'um (Hebrew #5002)
an oracle
KJV usage: (hath) said, saith.
Pronounce: neh-oom'
Origin: from 5001
the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
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Jer. 51:57• 57And 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. (Jer. 51:57)

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their heat.
Jer. 25:27• 27Therefore 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. (Jer. 25:27)
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Isa. 21:4‑5• 4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
 5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield. (Isa. 21:4‑5)
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Isa. 22:12‑14• 12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
 13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
 14And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts. (Isa. 22:12‑14)
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Dan. 5:1‑4,30• 1Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
 2Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
 3Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
 4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
 30In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. (Dan. 5:1‑4,30)
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Nah. 1:10• 10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Nah. 1:10)
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Nah. 3:11• 11Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy. (Nah. 3:11)
and sleep.
Jer. 51:57• 57And 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. (Jer. 51:57)
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Psa. 13:3• 3Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; (Psa. 13:3)
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Psa. 76:5‑6• 5The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
 6At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep. (Psa. 76:5‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When 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.