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.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 51 connects to 10 cross-references. The oracle against Babylon continues with instructions for Judah's departure: flee out of the midst of Babylon. God's vengeance for Zion's temple is the theme. Jeremiah orders the scroll of Babylon's doom to be tied to a stone and cast …
Other Translations
And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.
And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not--an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name.
And I will make her chiefs and her wise men, her rulers and her captains and her men of war, overcome with wine; their sleep will be an eternal sleep without awaking, says the King; the Lord of armies is his name.
Cross References
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore …
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep …
Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the …
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, …
Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be …
And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of …